Thank you so much for the words of encouragement....

I don't think I can go back to my old job. They are going to hire a full time more junior level employee they told me, so they won't want a part time senior level employee again....

The one consolation is that within the new company, they do shuffle people around within if people find themselves in the wrong position, or if a person has other interests and skills that could be used elsewhere within the company. But I imagine that's after you've proven yourself after a while of being there.... so that's not even a possibility right now.