Like millions of Americans who are quitting their regular, stable, income-consistent jobs, I joined "The Great Resignation" and quit my job as well. It was a great job, I had been there for 2 years, 9 months. I implemented data analytics to enhance many fraud investigations and a couple of audits as well. I will greatly miss my awesome coworkers.
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However, I will not miss:
- Commuting
- Spending fifty percent of my time in meetings or preparing for meetings
- Taking annual leave so that I can help Alex get his school work done.
I also have the opportunity to chart my own path and perform my own goal-focused strategic planning.
Commuting!
It's a thing. Does anyone remember it? During October, I ended up needing to PHYSICALLY GO INTO THE OFFICE to try to reset the network connection on my desktop computer. I had been using remote desktop to connect to it for THE ENTIRE PANDEMIC and didn't have any trouble except that one time when I accidentally chose "Update and Shutdown" instead of "Update and Restart." Fortunately, one of my awesome coworkers happened to be in the office and went over to my desk to push the restart button. However, this time, my computer completely disappeared from the network and wouldn't come back. So I WENT TO THE OFFICE.
The metro looked like this:
Masked Metro Men |
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No commuting? Definitely an improvement over commuting.
Now What?
So no more commuting. What do I do now that I am not commuting? Well, I don't have any pictures of me sitting down with Alex arguing about how he can, in fact, write if he would just stop arguing. But, I did take the time to bring Will to the DMV one early morning for him to apply for his driving permit. And I took a photo.
When the pandemic started, he was only 13, now he can get a driving permit! |
We stopped at McDonald's for some energy food and beverages (orange juice and coffee). We arrived before the DMV opened. Even so, all of the parking was full, but we found a spot on a nearby street. The line of people was 3/4 of the way around the building! So we hung out and reminisced about the other times that we stood in line to get documents.
Will and Alex were with Dan and me when we got our driver's licenses here in Virginia. I showed Will my driver's license photo with the super frizzy hair because on the day we went to get the licenses, it was very humid Virginia summer day and I had to literally run over to Staples and print an additional document to verify my identity.
We thought back to our time in France where I would bring the children along to get visa paperwork as well as my French driver's license. This was similar to standing in the line here at the DMV before the office opened along with many other people trying to get in first thing in the morning.
I told Will about when I was pregnant with him and needed to persuade the officials at the Japanese prefecture to give me the mother and child health handbook book, the boshi-techo (母子手帳) even though I was not Japanese. Surely acquiring a learning permit for Will would prove more simple than the bureaucratic challenges of the past.
Alas, no. After standing in line for quite a while, checking in, filling out paperwork, waiting some more, and passing the eye test, Will went off to do the written test. He returned later with the news that he had not passed, disclosing that the questions on the test were not covered in his school-sponsored driver's education class. So when faced with questions such as, "What do you do if you accidentally damage someone's car that is unattended?" he stated "Wait until they return" instead of the correct answer, "Leave a note with your information." He will be reading the Virginia driving booklet before his next test!Getting Started on Being Self Employed
Drinking Peppermint Tea out of a mug gift from another (not pictured) Awesome Coworker |
1 comment:
yay. i might be next. congrats and you'll do well
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