{"id":47,"date":"2006-10-31T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-11-01T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:41:56","slug":"6-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"6 Days To Go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…or, in the world of work: 0 days to go.<\/p>\n

Yep. That’s it. I’m not longer a Systems Engineer. I’m unemployed.<\/p>\n

Mental.<\/p>\n

It’s been an odd day… packing the desk was rather sad, but gave me a chance to go through some of my old things (my “first day at work” starter pack, the 2001 company calendar (complete with lots of weekends reading “Uni” for all those times where I went back to see mates), print outs of photos of drunken evenings with the FBL guys), which was nice.<\/p>\n

After a pub lunch, I was given a leaving presentation in the afternoon, which was a) massively embarrassing and b) quite humbling – as I guess these things are. Some stories I’d entirely forgotten about caused a great deal of cringing from me – and laughing from those watching – but that was more than made up for by the goodbye card signed by loads of people and the ace presents… including… yes… ANOTHER SQUAGE:<\/p>\n

\"OMG<\/a><\/p>\n

They’re like buses…<\/p>\n

Mr Paul Grimsley and your better half, I salute you both :-)<\/p>\n

As I said in my leaving speech (aside from the snarky remarks about technical career paths ;-) ), thanks to everyone for being such good fun to work with. You’ve given me lots of good memories of the past 5 years – I’m going to miss you!<\/p>\n

And who knows, with hindsight I might even miss<\/i> work.<\/p>\n

*COUGH*<\/p>\n

Toodles :-)<\/p>\n

Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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