It's my last week at the firm. Twenty years ago this Saturday, I walked to work for my first day in the office, excited about starting up only my second job in my life, having worked 10 years at my first. It's been a good run. I'm going to miss it dearly. But I feel really good about what I've been able to contribute and learn. And I feel at peace that now is a good time to go.
I still don't know what's next for me. Which is terrifying and exhilarating all at once. Obviously, having worked 20 years in one place, I don't have a lot of experience finding a job, even if I've given a lot of people advice on how to do just that.
It occurs to me that, while this transition is new ground for me, in some sense it is not. I graduated from college without knowing what I would be doing after, since the place I wanted to work (The Enterprise Center) required a government grant to afford to add me, a grant I worked on and prayed over which we did not get until a good two months after I got my diploma.
Fast-forward nine years, and I had given my one-year notice there, continuing to work full-time while taking on a graduate degree program at Penn, and then duly leaving that job a year later to complete that degree program, again not knowing what was next for me career-wise.
Faith is truly the evidence of things not seen, so says the Good Book. Sometimes we plan, and God knows my default is to do that. And sometimes we wait in the haze of uncertainty, for some doors to close and others to open. And He is faithful in these transition times, to not only get us from Point A to Point B but to teach us a little bit about Himself and ourselves in the in-between place between Point A and Point B.
So that's where I am right now. I will be sure to keep everyone posted!
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