Last Day

[Mouseyy]

I?d be lying if I said this wasn?t bitter sweet. But I just left/quit the job I?ve been at for the last two years today. I?ve known this day was coming for two months if not more, but I wasn?t emotionally prepared to be sad about it but tbh I honestly hated this job.

Anyone else ever been in this place before? Where you just feel sad after leaving something or moving on from something even if you really didn?t enjoy it? It?s a bitter sweet thing. I think maybe it?s just because I?ll miss the people I worked with. Plus with leaving this job I?ll be leaving the city I?ve lived in all my life as well. So it?s a lot of emotions.

But I guess here?s to a new beginning right?

 

[redchance]

Three times now in the past 2 years actually:

1. My coop at the US Army Corps of Engineers. The office was always empty, The geotech section was described to me as the worst section within the corps when i first started. I didnt have a superviser for 6 months because the guy who hired me on left for a promotion on my first day on the job. Then when I finally got a superviser he decided he didn't want to keep me on board after only 2 weeks of being in the position. He told me that I wasn't being fired but my employment with the Corps would end 4 months after I graduated (November when I was given the news, I was scheduled to graduate in May)

2. Immediately after graduation I left for a job with a CMT testing and Geotechnical Consulting Firm. I was given a $6/hr pay increase from my coop but my work became entirely outside doing concrete testing howeved they told me that they like their engineers to get field experience before they pull them in to the office. I was skeptical but after 4 months of concrete testing (which sucked) they pulled me into the office and trained me to classify soil and rocks, then had me begin aiding in the process of writing Geotechnical reports, I stayed there for another 6 months then made the decision to move to North Carolina for a Civil Engineer job.

3. The position was with a Geotechnical consulting, structural assesments, and environmental consulting firm with a side of CMT. I finally got some limited design experience and genuinely liked my coworkers. However the company was small which meant resources were slim. Once the CMT manager was fired I was suddenly assigned 30 projects that were previously his. I also had to do fill in for CMT work on ocassion to cover the field tech we had. My title on my job offer was Civil Engineer EIT but when our company was required for jobs to list personel and resumes for each they had me listed as an entirely different title - project specialist despite doing everything their engineers do. They also were paying me $5000 a year less than was detailed in my job offer and I also found out on my last day that they had "forgotten" to put me on their disability insurance despite it being covered in my job offer.

So yeah I understand. Move on there are much better places to be and don't feel bad about leaving. They'll have you replaced within a few weeks.

 

[heidi]

It’s kinda just how life works, new beginnings! It keeps on going. I haven’t lived long enough to have too many of these. But from middle to highschool, a lot of change.

But it opens new doors in our lifes, for more opportunities, and new experiences. And if we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t be really living. Accepting our self to change, is important. :3

 

[Simon]

It likely won't be the last time you do it - I actually left a career AND area I had lived in my whole life to go back to school in a town I'd never been to. Best decision I ever made.

Hopefully the feelings of sadness will pass and you'll be able to enjoy a new change in life, and any opportunities it may bring.

 

[Adorable Miracle]

I can one up Simon! - I left the United States, moved around the world to live in England, after growing up in the same state, same area, same everything my entire life. Only time I ever left home was to go to college 1 hour away and then I moved straight back home after that. Now I live in England a 1/2 a world away from everything, everyone, and absolutely no one here that I call family outside my husband. You will soon get over it and be happier for having done it, lifes to short to be miserable! I've been in England almost 4 years. I would likely move back stateside at some point in the future. I don't intend on staying here forever.

- Oh yeah one other thing i did it with two suitcases and basically left my old life packed in boxes in my moms garage. It sounds like I did this on a whim, it sort of was, but at the same time I thought I had nothing to lose either. If it didn't work out, I would simply go back home, find a new job and resume life as it use to be.

Just know that if you never take a risk in life you will always wonder what if. In my case I thought what do I really have to lose, then I thought not a damn thing! Now I've been all over Europe, I just need to tour Norway and Russia, I could happily move back to US and never leave it again

 

[Adorable Miracle]

It likely won't be the last time you do it - I actually left a career AND area I had lived in my whole life to go back to school in a town I'd never been to. Best decision I ever made.

Hopefully the feelings of sadness will pass and you'll be able to enjoy a new change in life, and any opportunities it may bring.

Good on you!

 

[december]

i guess i'm a little like A Adorable Miracle in how i went about a big change.

i left a job that i didn't mind working at and two weeks later moved to South Korea. i had grown up in the same city surrounded by my family and boyfriend and friends and people i knew to being in a completely different country where they all don't speak English. i had only gotten used to the idea of the change coming since like a month prior to moving.

it definitely was a little bittersweet and a bit terrifying to having such a big change going on. i kept in contact with all my old coworkers because they had become my friends during my time working there.

 

[dryden]

Who asked for another long Dryden post? nooooobodyyyy

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I have been working in the IT "world" since I was in Grade 10, I'm currently in my first year of college (Three years later,) and for a field that's nothing like IT. Im studying social and human sciences, all the while, I've been working at an insurance company in IT. for the past 7-ish months.

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Its been about 3 years within the IT realm per-say, and two different companies that I've been with, one as a team lead and one as a independent programmer. IT and programming is something I had liked before, and something I'm good at, but in all honesty I've come to dread each day, and the mentally draining IT positions I've been in.

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My contract is up on the 31st and I decided to not extend it. So as of 2020, im no longer working in IT. Who knows, maybe I'll continue working in IT until I graduate, maybe I'll work somewhere else. Still want a job so its either a retail job entry level, or I go BACK INTO IT as a higher paying job, idk I like money.
All I know is that next year I'm going to do a co-op with United Way helping organizations finance their programs. Something I'm passionate about for once, and in the field of what I want to be when I'm all graduated; Specifically a Mental Health and Addictions Counsellor.

One thing I would like to add to anyone who's younger and still in high school: If where you are offers a High-school coop program, please please please take it. It lets you know if its something you want to actually do, and don't apply to like a job that you can get without any experience like working at a clothes store, apply to a place that's ambitious and take it seriously. I feel like my experience is super helpful since I had a complete realization that it was not where I wanted to be.

Im not saying you can't enjoy doing tech stuff or IT or whatever, The type of person I am is a (@moyye) peoples person, I love working with people, my most recent team lead position was like that, but it only hinted at what I like and made me want it that much more. I know many people happy as can be working in IT and getting all that mulah$$, but it's not my top priority.

Please ask me questions, I'd say I'm semi-decent at giving advice or information since I'm in school for it.


Maybe I should add I'm like 18 so discontentment, and dissatisfaction are common anyway, I'm still maturing as an adult.

 

[Adorable Miracle]

My husband works in IT - he however went to Oxford and got a degree in Mathematics and Computation. Just saying you don't have to major in something to actually get into the field. He does programming languages and writes programming these days. There are many faceted IT jobs. I personally have Multiple Degrees in history and right now I'm not doing anything except being irresponsible and enjoying my 5 year holiday in England being a house wife. Once my visa pathway is done (5 years! its going to take. I have one 1.5 years left) (right now my time being out of the country is restricted to 452 days in 5 years.) I will likely find a job doing some traveling for work. I wouldn't mind traveling now that I'm not so paranoid about flying! <3

Who asked for another long Dryden post? nooooobodyyyy