I am wrapping up my final couple days in the office, then I’m off on a vacation next week to Portland and Sacramento and I’ll be starting a new position in another department the following week.
I have to admit, the private office was a major selling point for this new position. A real office with four walls, a door, and a window. I have spent most of my six years here in a very communal, cubicle environment with no windows and way too many people in a small space... every detail of everyone’s lives becomes common knowledge…
I’ve spent several days this week packing up my office…weeding through file folders and tossing what’s outdated and handing off current project materials to co-workers. I’m left with two small boxes to take with me. It occurred to me that one benefit of having moved offices every year for the last six years is that I had relatively small amount of material to go through. It’s amazing how work becomes so much of your daily life…years of meeting minutes, product deployments that have long since come and gone, pages of notes about things learned and forgotten…
Now that I’m leaving, Management and Administration have begun discussions as to how to redefine my position. I thought it was ironic that it took me leaving to begin discussions as to how to do things differently. But then it also occurred to me…that maybe I had become my own biggest obstacle. Maybe after a certain amount of time in any position, we become our own biggest obstacle and we don’t even know it. Bringing in someone new means they can start fresh here, and I can take what I’ve learned and begin in a new environment. I’m looking forward to the change of scenery.
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