Aw...I need a hug...
My now former co-workers are too lovely for words. Rather than letting me sneak quietly out of the door, they did a big presentation thing where they gave me far too many gifts and, the best bit, a card signed by everyone. I went bright red and babbled my thanks because it was really far more than I expected.
I don't go into places expecting to make any kind of big impact. I just want to do the best that I can at the tasks that I'm given and I've been so surprised by all the praise and thanks that I've had in this temp job. I didn't get this much fuss made of my leaving when I went back to university - and I'd been with that company for three and a half years! Even though it wasn't something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, this temp job has probably been the best job that I've had. Even if this life of a data analyst doesn't work out, at least I know that I'm a damned good secretary/administrator. They've even said that I can ask for a reference if I ever need it and we've all exchanged email addresses and phone numbers so that we can keep in contact. I'm going to miss them all :-(
So it's been rather an emotional day.
Getting home to the message that my employer before university has no record of my three years of service (!) kinda proved that maybe I wasn't working for the greatest company back then and the housing association is the kind of employer I should be aspiring towards.
To calm down and get over the slight urge towards weepiness, I sat down and did some more review transfering. Did 21 reviews...which took me from the middle of the A Stargate titles to the end of C. Buffy had 58 fanfic reviews, but Stargate already as 27 and I'm only up to C. Ouch. The impressive bit is how many of the fics that I reviewed still stand out in my mind - I can remember most of them quite clearly, down to where I was reading them and how I felt about them. Not all of these are fics that I would rec now, but my reading tastes have changed over the past four years. I won't delete any of them because I never rec fics that I didn't think were worth it at the time, even though the kinds of fics that I look for now are quite different.
On the other hand, there are a number that I still re-read today. I stumbled over a Sam/Janet fic by Blaze that I recced in the early days and re-read only a couple of weeks ago - enjoying it just as much now as then.
I don't go into places expecting to make any kind of big impact. I just want to do the best that I can at the tasks that I'm given and I've been so surprised by all the praise and thanks that I've had in this temp job. I didn't get this much fuss made of my leaving when I went back to university - and I'd been with that company for three and a half years! Even though it wasn't something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, this temp job has probably been the best job that I've had. Even if this life of a data analyst doesn't work out, at least I know that I'm a damned good secretary/administrator. They've even said that I can ask for a reference if I ever need it and we've all exchanged email addresses and phone numbers so that we can keep in contact. I'm going to miss them all :-(
So it's been rather an emotional day.
Getting home to the message that my employer before university has no record of my three years of service (!) kinda proved that maybe I wasn't working for the greatest company back then and the housing association is the kind of employer I should be aspiring towards.
To calm down and get over the slight urge towards weepiness, I sat down and did some more review transfering. Did 21 reviews...which took me from the middle of the A Stargate titles to the end of C. Buffy had 58 fanfic reviews, but Stargate already as 27 and I'm only up to C. Ouch. The impressive bit is how many of the fics that I reviewed still stand out in my mind - I can remember most of them quite clearly, down to where I was reading them and how I felt about them. Not all of these are fics that I would rec now, but my reading tastes have changed over the past four years. I won't delete any of them because I never rec fics that I didn't think were worth it at the time, even though the kinds of fics that I look for now are quite different.
On the other hand, there are a number that I still re-read today. I stumbled over a Sam/Janet fic by Blaze that I recced in the early days and re-read only a couple of weeks ago - enjoying it just as much now as then.