It has been a week since I called up my boss and told her I was quiting my job to go on an 11 month mission trip. This is a job that I always said I would always be at and passed my 10 year anniversary at this September. I would joke and call myself a lifer. Others came and went and being in the human services field many came and went and I stayed. I think in a lot of ways I still feel like there is no world outside of the working world. I guess this will still be work just without a pay check. I feel like I have been on an emotional roller coaster this week. Everyone I see I have to tell them the story of where I am going and what I will be doing. Some have refused to believe it, some have cried and some have got mad. Working with people with disabilities they are used to change in staff but it seems that for a lot of my clients I have been the one person who was always there. I hope that many of the people that I have met over the years will continue to stay in my life in one way or another and that goodbye will just be see you in a year.
