Four years after leaving my job
Four years ago today I put my notice in and left my big job. Below is the blog I wrote in February 2009 when I had just done it. It was fascinating to me to read it again so here it is: why I did it and what I thought at the time. And at the bottom are my thoughts on what has happened to my life since then. February 14th 2009. I have done it now. I have put my notice in. I have no job to go to and no immediate plans to find one. What kind of idiot puts their notice in during a recession? I am surrounded by people at work worrying about redundancy and I know some people who have already been made redundant and who are coping with the knocked sideways shock of it all. I feel almost guilty for walking away from a job in these circumstances but I am doing so, and it is not even a job I hate. Work has been a huge part of my life for the last twenty years or so. When my first marriage failed I had to earn some money so I was pushed back into the world of work ...