I Quit!

No, I'm not quitting blogging. Or knitting. Or even crochet, for that matter. And I guess technically I'm not actually quitting, I'm resigning. But 'I Quit' sounds more dramatic and I'm sure you'll excuse me unleashing a bit of dramatic flair here, it is my blog after all. 

As I mentioned in my previous post, after 13.5 years in my job, I realised that the time had come for a change. Ironically, that realisation came after a change in my role; the job I had been doing was moved away and I was placed into a totally different role and one that I just didn't gel with at all.

Not only that, the environment was entirely different to the one I'd been in previously. And not in a positive way.

I don't make New Year's Resolutions each year, but I do set myself a word of the year and this year's was Acceptance. I use my word of the year to help shape the way I think about things and to help me make decisions, in this case it was a question of accepting that the situation wasn't going to change for the better and that perhaps the time had come to move on.

Luckily, my new job came along at just the right time and I couldn't be happier to have been offered the role. It's going to allow me to help make a real difference in the community and maybe even open doors to things I'd never previously considered doing.

Congratulatory flowers from the Spousal Unit and kids for getting my new job.

So last night, at 10pm, I hung up my headset for the last time. It was a bittersweet moment. I'm looking forward to all I have to come, but at the same time, I'm going to miss the friends I have made there. As we're all homeworkers, we are based all over the country, so it's not like we'll just bump into each other in town.

Now I have a couple of weeks before I start my new job so I'm going to spend some time with my kids and tackle my Knitting Nook once and for all!