Well I have been looking back over the last year and I am amazed of what has happened both to myself and to the people and things around me. This time last year we were in downward spiral in the global economy, all the projects were being canceled and people were being laid off in droves. It was a very bleak time. I stopped by my old office the other day and three people said the same thing, it been a bad year.....I think how I resigned my job to go to another one, and then getting the shaft from that job, how a person whom I have been friends with and have worked with for many years screwed me over and didn't have the decency to even call me and let me know why the position went away. I think of all the people I tried to find work for, and couldn't and had to lay off, and the lucky ones that did find work. I think about the calls from employers for reference checks on some of the people that worked for me, that were being considered for other roles. I think of the countless resumes I sent out, and the numerous interviews I did, and the up and down feeling every time I received a phone call about a job, or a rejection email saying I didn't get the job. I remember talking to people, after being laid off, and how optimistic they were at the time that this was just a slow down and things would rebound quickly. I remember how relaxed I felt even though I didn't have a job, and how motivated I was to loose some weight and get in shape. I remember the day I received a call from Doug another person I worked with in the past, asking me to join him here in Regina on a project. I remember the excitement and the frustration of coming here, and having to deal with some inexperienced people, and working with some great people. The ups and down of again getting calls for jobs that I had applied to before coming here and even receiving a couple offers, not good offers, but none the less offers.
Yes that was my last year and I think now as I go forward again and move to a new position, and as I am preparing to leave here, how I might actually miss all these red necks, and newbies, and vendors and pain in asses, and friends I met. I think that whether I have spent 17 years or 5 months with a company, I always feel connected to the people I worked with, and I like to think that I made the place a a little bit better by being here.
As I look forward though I see a new and exciting career, I see excitement in the travel I will be doing, in the things I will be learning and the influence and hopefully the value added I will bring to the project I will be working on with TCPL. I see me being able to spend more time with my family and more time off for myself, reconnecting with some old friends in the east, and more time traveling visiting my great friends in the west.
But as I look back 12 months and I look forward twelve months, I realize how lucky I have been, with the opportunities I have had and have been given. I look at the change I have made and the difference i hope to make. I am excited and thank whoever looks after me up there or down there, for allowing me to be able to be me, and to have the family and friends I do.
One last note, I don't care what you say, when i am living in Calgary and Toronto, both hockey teams still suck ass!
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