Personal Embracing Change: Saying Goodbye to My Office of 5 Years

[wadesgirl]

The company I've worked for 5 years is moving this week. I'm sad and happy at the same time. It will be great to move into a new building (a real building - not a run down old main street building) and to have an actual office to work in but I'll miss this place!

Won't miss:
Uncontrolable "weather" conditions (freezing cold in here in the winter because it's so drafty - sweating all summer because it's like 120 in the building)
Sharing a bathroom with all the boys in the shop - and smelling the boys in the bathroom because I'm so close to it
Climbing a flight of stairs 20+ times a day - although that does provide a good work out
Driving 70 miles round trip to work every day
Leaking ceiling - actually had a little rain forest in here last fall - even frogs!
Cluttered areas because there is no more room here

Will miss:
Looking out my window every day - sunrises are awesome and watching the storms move in the summer
The people at the store across the street - you don't work across from a convienence store for 5 years and not make friends
The post office is a block away!
Having my quiet little area where I work - I'll be around more people in the new place
Did I mention getting to look out the window for 8 hours a day!
Chef Success - more people around means I probably will not be able to be on here as much

It will be nice to be so much closer to our home since DH and I work together!

I'm just really sad today!

 

[cookscorner]

I understand the fact that you will miss your window. I am a teacher and for 8 years I was in a classroom with no windows. Now I have a small one that I can enjoy. Hang in there and focus on the positives.

 

[pampered1224]

When we moved in 2003 from Downtown Milwaukee to Mequon, we got a brand new building with tons of windows with not much around us. But it was an additional 10 miles away and a bear in the winter as the main freeway drifted over when we only had an inch of snow! There were no restaurants within walking distance no more shopping at the farmers markets every Wednesday. But then there was more room, cleaner building, easier non-paid for parking, much more climate controlled. There were gives and takes but yes, we all missed our old place. To some degree it becomes a home so you miss it. You'll make it through. Besides, you all will be so busy setting up the new place, you will soon be distracted enough. Think of all the benefits.