I won't post this for at least a few days, but I felt like getting a few thoughts out while the experience is still fresh. Today, I gave my notice at work. It's the second time with this company, but the first in about seven years. Seven years! And if you just treat it all as one stretch of Job, that's like 9.3 years. Out of a 28.something year lifespan.
Look, I'll even make a damned chart.
I'm not sure my thoughts are even coming out in complete sentences. I've been weighing this decision for so long that it feels weird writing this not as a list of pros and cons to try to convince myself, but as a declaration of the awesomeness that's to come.
I can't wait to wake up on my own schedule and work on the stuff that excites me just because it does. I can't wait to build projects and explore the wacky aspects that I would never even bother explaining to someone else conceptually. I can't wait to be realistic about projects, to pour my heart and soul into things that I know won't be torn away from me and stomped on by another tribe.
I can't wait to collaborate and inspire those around me, and know that I can purely do that for the sake of enriching those people- not to pour inspiration down a drain whose only label is a dollar sign.
And I just can't wipe this smile off my face.
Yay for you!
[and extra geek points for the pie chart.]