Friday was my last day at my main gig, moving upward and onward to a new gig that I started today. A full-time with benefits gig, doing this work that I love so much.
This process has taken well over a month, from my first interview, to officially being given an offer letter of employment. In between waiting for a background check, fingerprints, and my references to clear.
I’m super bummed that I was in a position of having to inform my clients before anyone else that I might be leaving. One might question a person’s professionalism around this. For me, it was an ethical decision around power and vulnerability. My more vulnerable clients needed to know that our relationship might end and thus I started hinting that “I might be leaving in early October”. That, and I didn’t want to go to management with a half-baked plan before getting an offer letter.
I actually put in my two weeks notice about half a week before I got my offer of employment letter. That was a little bit scary, but I’ve been cool as a cucumber it’s far as having no expectations for anything. That was my attitude going into my first job interview, and the second.
As always, I’m going to be looking for ways to implement social work and technology into my work. Even though I’m moving to a more bureaucratic type of environment, I still see potential of using design and information seeking technology to enhance the work that my colleagues and I will do.
It’s fair to say that things are looking peachy for me; I just finished all my hours, and hope to submit them ASAP. Learning is never done, and I can’t wait for whatever my future holds.
Plus, that my supervisor has an iPhone (I loooove iMessage) is a good omen.
