Goodbye Stress, Kind Of...

Two more days.

Just two more days until I can go back to my normal job. My normal job with my normal commute. A job where things are stable and I don't have to come to work and wonder, "Gee, who will I have to let go today?"

I will miss the people, of course. One great thing about my field is that you get to know a lot of really weird people, a lot of really bad people, but a lot of really awesome and inspiring people as well. I will miss the sweet, sweet end of the month bonus (I will miss it a lot, actually) and the seemingly endless overtime. Good bye extra income, I wish I appreciated you a lot more, sniff sniff. I will miss the... No, that's about it, I'll miss the people and the extra income and that's about it.

I guess I'll miss the experience. I complain a lot about how I'm always the one to be cleaning up a situation and after working my butt off, putting myself in un-ideal situations, and making tough decisions, and being the bad guy- after all that I end up walking away and moving on to the exact same thing. Same story, different walls. Why can't I be the one walking into an easy situation. Why can't I be the one that someone says, "Welcome to our company! Here is your new store. There's nothing wrong with it! Just maintain it!"

Truth be told, if that was the situation I would be very bored. That was the situation two years back and I left it to take on one of the most broken store in the entire company... an hour away. I didn't enjoy it and I wasn't as successful at it as I would have liked, but I enjoyed the challenge, the experience, and the sense of accomplishment. Recently my boss and I were talking about how nice it will be once Problem X,Y, and Z is fixed and everything will be so much more easier. "Yeah, but let's be honest. Once things start being easy we'll both be onto something else because we'll be bored." We laughed, because it's true.

So, temporary position with a hellish commute. Thanks for the past four months. Geez, I can't believe it's been FOUR MONTHS!!! I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm not done with you, because, of course, as I approach the finish line something has to go wrong. I have a feeling I'll be back to that location more than I would like, but it's okay. It'll be different because the burden won't be on me.

Bye!