This is my last week at my current job.

It's exciting and scary but hey, I'm 32 years old, time to act like a grown up even if I don't feel like one.

My new job is as payroll and admin assistant with a whole pile of PA and additional extras thrown in for good measure.  There are over 200 staff members (a big jump on my current situation where I am 1 of 8 full time staff) and its a 24/7 operation.   I'm working for a fairly large transport company specialising in cold storage and temperature and ambient controlled transport.  Ambient controlled means that the termperature changes with the external temperature.  It took me a serious amount of digging to find that out as I thought it may be something that came up in the interview.

I start next monday and I'm a little apprehensive.  It means I've lost all my incoming holidays but means I get a fair whack of dough when I finish this friday.  This of course comes in handy for squaring up those bills that have managed to get away from me lately.

BD has been working her ring out to pick up everything she can from me and her notes folder has become somewhat of a filing cabinet of late.

I have every confidence she will be able to do everything, she just needs to be put on the spot until she gets it.  At the moment she knows that I'm still around to fall back on and does so when things get a little tricky.  I think its a good thing that I am getting out now even though I have said it before, its defintely a family business and even though I have known these people all my life, I'm not blood and therefore expendible.

I do wish them all the best and I know they wish the same for me.  The work for me was becoming mundane and I spent more time organising their private lives than doing actual paid work, I had learnt all I could and it was time for me to move on. 

Now in a weeks time I will end up in BDs position, in a new company, learning a completely new job, in a completely new industry with completely different people.  The hard part will be finding my place in the personality pool, to see where I fit in and what I can achieve.

I'm looking forward to it ...