>Get promoted to go into leadership (management) at work
>Waiting in a pool of candidates to get called for a leadership spot to open up to go in
>Decide I don't want it anymore because I love my current job (coordinator) and my current location (Magic Kingdom)
>A colossal amount of pressure is then put on me to stay in the pool and say yes to whatever I'm given even if I don't want it anymore
>Peers I had a stress working relationship with put further pressure on me to say yes to any location and leave
>Get called to go to a resort on the other side of property
>I don't even stay a week before I give up and ask to go back to my old job/location
>Everything in the systems still haven't updated that I was a manager yet so it should be easy to just slide me back in
>The Union throws me under the bus because I left their hourly union role for a salaried non-union one and tells me to fuck off
>Stuck in a job I hate for another two weeks with a boss who can't stomach looking at me until casting calls me to help me get out of my situation
>I tell them I'll take whatever is the quickest hourly role open just to get the fuck out of where I'm at
>Ending up getting a full time Custodial position at Epcot
>Literally a fucking Disney Janny
>Stuck in the job for three months BUT I still have Merchandise training so I'm able to give away my custodial shifts and pick up Merchandise
>I also still have the ability to interview for my old coordinator job anywhere I want
>Peers who hated my guts back in Magic Kingdom do everything they can to ruin my reputation with my former leaders and cast I worked with
>My old location had two open coordinator spots and I never got called for an interview (despite it being required by Union contract to call anyone on their interest list which I definitely was) because of their meddling
>Want to get out of Custodial so I put in part time transfers back in Merchandise
>The Art Festival at Epcot was coming up so I got pulled to go to there
>Some of my old leaders from when I worked at Epcot during Covid got the email that I was transferring to them and called casting begging to have me come sooner
>I got that information from a friend of mine who was currently on the team so at least I knew I still had a positive network somewhere in the company
>Started working with them February of this year

>Having an okay time adjusting to my new location
>Leaders here love me, the coordinators love me, my fellow cast seem to be receptive towards me
>My friend on the team I have a complicated relationship with but she tells me she's happy to see me again and is glad I came to them
>Everyone also pretty much knows my entire backstory but they aren't judgmental about it at all

>Roommate lost his job and has been posting concerning stuff all over Facebook
>He slowly becomes more and more unhinged and is passive aggressive towards me and our other roommate
>He keeps saying he's being stalked but wont say who
>He keeps saying he's being harassed but he goes to wander around the apartment complex
>He says there's a fucking cult after him
>I have screencaps of his FB posts, I'm not making this shit up
>Finally learn that he's been doing meth and he's going insane
>Call up a close friend and he helps me move in one day back into my mom's place
>Currently living in her rec room with my bed on the floor
>Neither me nor or other roommate wanted an eviction on our record so we agreed to split the lease between the two of us since he can't pay anything and we couldn't break the lease because he would have to agree to it
>Between his portion of the rent we had to pay, all the new furniture I had to buy because of my emergency exit, and him trashing the apartment when the lease ended, he basically stole $3000+ from me and $2000+ from the other roommate.

>Friend I work with has been very affectionate with me
>She finally comes clean and tells me she's liked me for a long time
>I kind of did too before but I kept my distance because of previous situations
>Furthermore she's trying to get full time coordinator at Festivals (what I had in Magic Kingdom)
>She doesn't want anything to happen that could risk her not being considered
>We agree to not act on anything until I transfer out to a coordinator job somewhere else
>I didn't put Festivals on my interest list because it was very much her home and I've kind of been treating it as a temporary thing until I figure out where to go from here
>All I knew was I just wanted my old job back, and in one of the four parks
>Our agreement lasted....a whole week and we started dating anyways
>I've been interviewing for coordinator but don't get any offers
>I interviewed with my old location in Magic Kingdom and my leaders (who once gave me support for leadership and told me I was personally carrying the team on my own) gave me laughably dishonest feedback and basically made it clear they don't want me back
>GF says to try for the Countries on the East side of Epcot, our leaders run that operation along with the Festival operation but they're one leadership team in charge of two separate operations
>GF specifically does not want me in Festivals because if there's an open spot, she wants it and she doesn't want us working that close together because she's afraid it would ruin our relationship
>I interview for East with two of my leaders, but....they don't say anything to me afterwards so I assume I'm not only not considered but I did some kind of Faux Pas by putting my name on the list in the first place
>My GF is pulled into a meeting and specifically told to put her name on the interest list for East and they they really want her on that side working in the Countries with the international cast.
>The leaders up until this point have no idea we're dating
>GF does what's she's told because she wants the job even if it means leaving Festivals where she loves working
>One day GF is working with one of the leaders that interviewed me and asked her is she's been studying interview questions, GF says no
>"Oh you know who you should talk to? Ian. We interviewed him last week and he was the best interviewee we ever had. We didn't choose him because we are going to desperately try and get him coordinator on the Festivals side."
>GF is completely speechless, because she knew I was a little upset that I never got feedback for how my interview went.
>She thinks about it for a bit but then calls me, tells me what happens, and then says she wants me to put in for Festivals.
>I do what my better half tells me to.
>We both interview for coordinator on the same day. She interviews for East, and I interview for Festivals.
>We both get it, and now that I'm full time again, we're starting to plan to move in together when her lease ends in February.