I’M LEAVING.
I have just handed in my notice and I am trusting in myself and the universe that I am doing the right thing.
On my resigination letter I wrote 3 quotes.
“The definition of stupid is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results”
Darwin
If you don’t want what everyone else has, don’t do what everyone does.
Craig Groschel
I often wonder why birds stay in one spot when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question
I’ve bought a one-way ticket to Mexico and I am not coming back.
I have just given 5 weeks notice until the end of the year. Only 41 days until I leave the UK to test and apply everything I have learned about my personal and business life over the last 10 years.
Work has been good for me. When I started at that company over 5 years ago, I thought there was something special about it. I was really quite content there for 3 years before a dent appeared in its impervious armour. A disagreement with someone higher up caused me to re-assess my view of a company that had remained really good in my eyes and even then I was not really in a rush to jump ship.
It was only in the past year, that I really thought I was in a position that I can actually step out into the world, armed with the last 10 years life experience.
I know there is something interesting about the concept of leaving in a blaze of glory, flipping the bird at people and turning and walking off into the sunset, but the reality is very different. I actually feel bad in scenarios like that, and I guess I do not feel like that about my employers. Apart from a few occasions spread out over 5 years, I have had a lot of fun there. I worked with one of my best mates for 4 years of that time. Even though, that in itself made me want to kill him, it made us close also. When he left, he was replaced with younger people who added an element of comedy. Although I didn’t get one with everyone 100% of the time, there was equally no-one there that I hated 100% of the time.
It has served me well in grounding me for a long time and allowing to time to figure out what I wanted to do and giving me the time to learn, to grow as a person and as am employee.
It has played a big part in my life. Leaving here feels like saying goodbye to a parent in some respect. It has looked after me and now I am on my own.
Again.
I am not sure if there is a right or wrong way of leaving a position and it is subjective per person, but I have never really been TOO keen on burning bridges in my life. I do not see the point in it, though not everyone well agree.
I left on a high note
I have invested a lot of time there.
I left with relations in tact.
Here begins the countdown to the next step of my life.