Today at work I walked into our conference room on the 7th floor for a staff meeting. This conference room has huge windows that look out on Seattle and Mt. Rainer in the distance. It was a sunny bright day, but even on darker days that view is spectacular.
As I sat there and listened to my boss tell me the news, that due to funding issues I and others will most likely be laidoff in 2 months, my eyes would focus on the view of the mountains that I would soon miss. Now that this experience was coming to an end I kept thinking how much I have been blessed. So many good times spent in this space. If I was king of the world I would preserve this building in a museum to remind me of this period of my life. I was 22 when I first stepped foot in this lab overjoyed to be here...now I am thirty and I have grown enough to know that I need to leave despite how hard it may be. (note: I did leave when I was 25 to enter and drop out of a PhD. program in UC San Diego just to mix it up a little...I will tell that story another day).
Jobs can be like a comfortable couch for many I believe. You get in one and it becomes your stability and safety. You're just happy to make a good living while keeping it relaxed. Once you find a low stress position it becomes hard to get out of it voluntarily. Questions like: If I quit, how will I continue to live the lifestyle I've become accustomed? What if I hate my new career? But there are so many new adventures waiting that are never experienced due to our natural fear of change.
In September I begin my masters program in psychology which is scheduled for evening classes so I am kinda set, but I feel for some of the coworkers. I plan to look for another job and hope it's as relaxed and with good people like this one was. "How fortunate is the man with none."
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