Last Day

We knew it was coming. Our ILL Supervisor has been with us since she was an undergrad student, serving as a student worker, then staff member. She began her Master of Social Work program, and in May she graduated! Yeah! What a great accomplishment.

And then the interviews started. She applied for a number of positions here and elsewhere, and interviewed for several. One place hired her and then encountered a job freeze and had to rescind. We knew she would eventually get a good position and be leaving us. We toyed with a few ideas about restructuring after her position came open, but nothing really serious.

And then suddenly she was telling me she had been hired. Her dream job even. The one she would have wanted if she could call the shots. I am so happy for her as she enters her chosen realm of career and work.

Our team is once again under reconstruction. She has left us in great shape and we can slide for a bit until replacements arrive. But her last day turned out to be somewhat fractured as she tried to both wrap up things here and get all the pieces in place for starting there.

I think we said good bye three times before she was able to have her exit interview here, her physical for her new place, her forwarding disclaimers all in place. Leaving is not easy, but at least she is going to something she really wants to do. We will miss her smiling face, but fortunately she is not going far and we will continue to see her from time to time.

Good bye, but not for permanent.