Chapter Officially Closed…Well Mostly

Of course, wouldn’t you know that my plane was delayed? I was working with a very small window in order to see my daughter and it didn’t look like it was going to happen.  Our pilot made up some major time and from the moment I landed, we had about 10 minutes to spend with each other but that was better than landing and watching her plane take off. After she left, I waited for my son and had a few minutes to think about the day.  I officially closed a huge and important chapter in my life and there was no turning back.  Well, of course let’s not forget that I am contracted to facilitate three trainings in 2010 with the Company, but other than that it is over. Everyone is asking what am I going to do?  I honestly want to take a few weeks off and just relax because I haven’t done that in such a long time.  I am sure it is going to be a little weird, but let’s put that off until after the weekend. My son arrived to pick me up and he was so excited for me. We were going to have a great weekend and there would be no tears, no negative thoughts and no reminiscing about the past 15 years. Our first stop was to check in to the hotel and unpack and then on to our favorite seafood restaurant.  We had a glass of wine and toasted great things going forward.  The food in the restaurant is fabulous and the service makes it that much more amazing. Our server was telling us about the specials and the types of oysters etc. and got onto a topic about moving away and starting over. My son told her that today was my last day at work and that I had officially resigned.  She was so excited and wanted to hear everything…I sent her to my blog as I wanted to talk to my son. I hope she is reading this as she was knowledgeable and fun. We talked about next steps and what was out there for me and ideas and dreams and the one thing I was pretty positive about was that I did not want to look for a job.  Don’t get me wrong, I want to work, but a job in a Corporate office was not on the list.  The question had been asked of me a number of times: if money, time and age was not an issue, what would you want to do? That was simple…