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:: pmeg ::
i totally romanticize my old job. i miss it a lot, but i am totally kidding myself that it was awesome. i mean, i worked for the female michael scott, so how could it possibly be awesome?
really, what i miss is being good at my job. my old clients miss me, and i miss them a lot.
i do not miss
-- working for a woman who let her kid sleep in her bed until he was 12
-- working with a woman who thought her job was to entertain, not manage (and yet did both so poorly. so, so poorly.)
-- trying to work my schedule around my co-workers extra-marital affairs
and much, much more!
really, how good you are at your job is a major reason i got pissed when you wanted to switch out of the cancer drugs. you are good at this -- and it would have made me mad that you left that work to someone else who was not as good, not as experienced, and could not have handled it half as well.
Re: :: pmeg ::
srsly, i feel like i could have written everything you just did. old job was the one i worked for since i was in high school, and i know i was super awesome at it. but now that it's gone -- really, it's not a tragedy.
i really, really regret not being in the industry right now, but i know that job isn't the one i want. the crazy thing is, i know i could have it back in a second if dh and i moved back, but no. it's the dream job with a nightmare company, and i can't trade on that.
like you, i lived and breathed that job. i worked late, i worked weekends, i kept up on clients' personal lives, i wrote recommendations for them, i got one guy into a co-op in brooklyn, but now -- it's nice to go home at the end of the day and not think about work at all.
i'm almost five years out, and i still keep in touch with my old co-workers (who still ask me questions like "hey, do you know where the file is for this person and how much we paid them" and yes, i actually do remember that), but moving on to something else is pretty awesome too.
i would not have left if it wasn't for dh. and when we were sure i wanted to move, i even asked him about staying on for another two years so i could be fully vested in my 401k (rather than 90%). but really. it hasn't been all bad.