Hanging on........

Right this minute I am one working day away from retiring from my job of 27 years.  I won't have to drive that familiar "auto pilot" drive every day and enter a building that I've worked in for the past 20 years, up the elevators to the 3rd floor.  I can't say that I won't miss some of my co-workers because I will...how could I not?  I've worked with these people for 27 years and I hope that we will be able to continue our friendships, but I will not miss working there.

My feelings are all over the place right now.........for the first time in 27 years I do not have a job and prior to that I had only been unemployed a total of a few weeks throughout my life.  That, is scary.  Period.  BUT, the possibilities are exciting and that takes the scariness away a bit.

Not only am I ending one thing, but tomorrow night, I'll be starting another.  I'll be attending my first class as a college student!  My fall semester class "Start Up Small Business" at our local community college is on Wednesday nights until December.  I'm excited to have this challenge.  I'm also going to be starting an online interior design certificate course in October that runs for 12 months.

I've been organizing myself the last few months with lists, goals, ideas and to-do things in my planner and I can't wait to start tackling that stuff.

I have a feeling I'm going to ask myself "How in the world did I ever work?"