It has been a wild ride, but today I am leaving the company I have worked with for the past 8+ years. As I mentioned in my previous post about telling my boss I was quitting to travel the world, the team there have been the most supportive I could have hoped for. Everyone is beyond excited and maybe a little bit jealous about my next adventure and I am very sad I can’t bring them all along!
I’ve had it really good both here in DC at my current location and at my prior one in Colorado. The people I have worked with are so incredibly talented in so many facets and they all come together for a common purpose. I will always take with me the lessons I have learned there and am so grateful to have found a company I enjoyed working for!
We have a tradition on the occasion of an employee’s last day in the company, that the entire staff comes out and claps them out of work while one person gives a verbal recount of their time with us and where they are headed next. I barely made it out of my store in Colorado without getting choked up and I wasn’t even leaving the company then. This time around I have worked in DC for four years and owe a lot of my growth to the amazing leadership team here.
There is just no way I’m making it out of there without getting emotional!
January 9, 2015
Yes, it will be painful but for all the right reasons – you like your colleagues and the experiences you’ve had there. That’s s blessing for sure.