End of an era (so to speak)

[1orion2many]

Enjoy your new job Burn, I train people and they have a period called the Honeymoon where everything is new and enjoyable, this lasts about 6 weeks. If you get past this period and still enjoy the job then you have definitely done the right thing. I can go up on the mines and earn double what I earn now but as far as I'm concerned a good lifestyle is one of the most important things to have so I hope this change helps you with your lifestyle outside of work as well.

[STL]

Congrats Burn. I think its great your looking forward to unchartered territory and I'm sure things will work out fine and maybe even that Botcon trip will become viable in 11 months time.

[Golden Phoenix]

nice one.
I wouldn't mind a change of job. I don't get paid enough currently <_<

[Burn]

Thanks guys!

Seems I picked a good time to bail. Aside from the fact a number of invitations were sent out to clients to come in and say bye and enjoy some drinks and nibblies (along with balloons and streamers) throughout the day, we had a steady stream of people wanting to do their tax returns.

Final day and I was STILL doing some teaching, (and there was still stuff I didn't get around to passing on). I think the one thing that's left me annoyed is I left with a small pile of tax and gst returns to be completed, and no plan to complete them! And any time I left work I either had no piles left over or had a plan in place to get them over and done with completely!

So aside from the rather large parting cheque, I also got a fancy keyring with my name on one side, and the years I was there on the other plus a couple of kg's of ... chocolate. Dunno why people think the best friend for fat people is chocolate but you know .... whatever. All that was from work, one client got me a $10 scratchie (won $25) while another got me a fancy gold pen and letter opener set.

I think the one thing i've learnt ... is just how much people not only relied on me, but how they just assumed i'd never leave. But hey, not my problem now.

[Borgeman]

...one client got me a $10 scratchie (won $25) ...

WINNER!!!!

George

[i_amtrunks]

WINNER!!!!

George

Watch out Burn, the Lotteries People will want you to do a TV ad claiming how surprised you were that you actually won money on a scratchie!

[1orion2many]

WINNER!!!!

George

That's not what a TF collector would be thinking, it would be more like "DELUXE"

[Tiby]

Congrats on the new job! I really hope the grass is truly greener for you!