Last Day at Work

Today I'm having a humbling experience. 3 weeks ago, I gave in my notice to leave work, and today is it, my last day, in this job and hopefully in any. I figured, it's about time to stand up on my own and do something.

It's humbling. You never know what tomorrow has in store now. The predictability is gone. No more looking up corporate profiles and modelling your career on other's successful resumes.

But the freedom, the ability to, now, do what you want to, the heart-felt immersion in activities that just seem like the right thing to do, the hopeful better allocation of time between work, personal affairs, family and friends, doing what you feel you can do best and not being told what to do, being responsible/ accountable to no one but your self, all seems quite romantic.

I will miss the discipline that a job brings, and the company of smart colleagues that makes sure you are more or less moving in a certain direction in life and will sooner or later reach somewhere. But after having been among scientists, academicians, engineers, and finance-analysts in the past, it's become obvious, if you do what you do well, you will find yourself part of an eco-system, people who will guide, advise and help you and just make sure that you, as part of that system, progress along with it.