Dear XXX,
It's been wonderful and rewarding to work for you for over four years and i thank you for the opportunity. At the time, my life is heading into a new direction and a position in the Cancer Center Laboratory cannot accommodate these changes. With that being said, this is formal documentation of my two week notice of resignation on January 16, 2009**.
Sincerely,
Sara E. Reeble
**they asked me to stay one more week and i said i would so my final day was actually the 23rd.
taking a new job with better hours at Children's. essentially doing what i do now, with less of a work load and an increase in the spectrum of testing i'm responsible for which means getting away from being a brainless workhorse and getting back into being a challenged and skilled tech. i'll be assisting on bone marrow biopsies as well which will be equally heartbreaking and nerve wrecking. they put the kids under, thankfully, before they obtain the marrow specimen. i had to leave my job mostly for myself. i want to go back to school possibly or at least keep filling up my non-work time with learning of any kind. and most definitely to find a job that didn't consume my entire day. i'll leave work at 4:30 at Children's so this is ideal. i left my job because my boss did nothing for almost a year when my 7pm time off inched it's way to 7:30, 8 and even 8:30. my day was blown when this would happen. no one else i worked with had to worry about open ended hours that they didn't ask for, so no one cared when it was happening to me. my supervisor had the nerve to say that she didn't really take me seriously when i told them i was staying overtime nearly every night and now she's not sure how they can hire some one while saying "your hours are 10-7, kind of". i don't feel bad for you.
i told myself awhile back that i'd like to see a few things come into my life:
1. new job
2. screen printing class
3. etsy store
4. creating more handmade
5. research nutrition programs
6. old town class
7. photo class
1-5 down. still looking into nutrition programs but i'm having such a blast selling on etsy and taking class at lillstreet that i don't think i'm ready to make that big of a commitment yet since i've been neck deep in the same CAREER (i forget that sometimes, that i've had a legit career) for over almost 7 years. i'm kind of kicking around the idea of getting into a textiles/design program? who knows. come spring i'm reallyreally hoping to take a class at old town if i have the money together. i've also been researching classes at Chicago Photography Center. i don't have a DSLR yet, but i think it would be really worth it when i get one:
http://www.chicagophoto.org/newweb/classes/main/classes.php
They at least have a bunch of free classes for digital and manual cameras in the meantime so i want to take advantage of those mostly because i came into ownership of my dad's cousins Minolta that he took to Nam.
film canisters:
Dad says he never saw any of the pictures he took while he was there.
Hey, I know I just ran into you and everything, but I'm glad to hear you have all this new/exciting stuff going on. It's nice that you're financially stable enough right now to be able to take a step back from working all the time and actually enjoy some things and take classes. Those film canisters are so rad. I bet the pictures he took that he never saw were equally rad.
ReplyDeleteYour new job sounds like it's interesting. I once had to get bone marrow taken and it might have been more painful than the "actual" surgery I received.
right on- good for you. so many people just passively accept bs like that
ReplyDeletesteve- thanks! i'll still be working a 40 hour week so i'm not really taking a break. i'm just taking a break from working for people that don't appreciate my time and take advantage of my willingness to help. and my day will just be structured in a way that's conducive to these other ventures. i've only sat in on an adult marrow biopsy and it was horrible. this is going to be really challenging, but obviously not nearly as challenging as what the little guys on the table are going through. i just hope i do a good job and that i'm the least of their worries.
ReplyDeletefrank- thanks! this recession has put a nasty stigma on people willing to call out shitty labor practices and it stinks!! you would think that in in light of it all, fairness would play heavily into this "change" but i'm afraid it's working out in quite the opposite way and folks are caving into desperation. maybe i'm privilaged for working in a "recession proof" field and maybe i'm painfully idealistic but i don't want any part of it. but in truth, their behavior was the secondary push to get me to leave. i just want to move on in SOME way and that was what really motivated me.
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