In One Week

In one week I will be leaving my job, my first real job, my lifelong dream fulfilling, corporate reality checking, stressful like I'm serving again job. I have had other jobs before but as for working to support myself this is the one and only. From applying to experiencing to quitting it was all new for me and the last year and a half was amazing. The realization that I wanted more from my job came a couple of months ago, I knew I wasn't satisfied but I still loved going everyday because I love the people. I will be leaving for an opportunity I choose, and I am sad because leaving the job means leaving my family. My co-workers are so much more than co-workers to me, they are my family, they are the people who took me in and helped me when I was alone, helped me learn to love this crazy new province that I choose to move to.

Saying goodbye is not something I want to do, I want to be able to stay with my perfectly wonderful family forever. Unfortunately I reached my breaking point, if you read a couple of posts back you will see I had as close to a break down as there is without actually having a break down. I knew that I needed the change, needed it to make my life better, so saying goodbye is the sadness in this new joy.

My first goodbye was to the most wonderful doctor I have ever met, she is wonderful to learn from and always smiling. She has a great sense of humor and just makes me laugh, a joy to work with. It hurts my heart to not be able to work with her anymore. It was my first goodbye and not the last.

I know that everyone will say we will keep in touch and I know the people for which that is true, but there are those it is not true for. Either way the family that I had for the last 8 months is unique and loving and I will never have it again. I will cherish the moments and memories.

The new job will be amazing, better hours, hopefully less stressful and full of opportunity that I don't have at my current job, but there is also loss.