Just like that we decided we were going to tell our bosses. For some reason I thought I would know months ahead of time on the day I was going to break the news. But nope, reality was we decided the day before I broke the news.
I had that odd nervous feeling running through my body monday morning. Just anticipating what was going to happen. It took me a good 5 mins before I could press send on my email to the boss to arrange a meeting. I couldn’t understand why I was so nervous… all I was going to be doing is telling them I have plans to go see the world.
Now that I think about it… that odd feeling was the exact same feeling I had when I got into that beautiful hot red classic car on the day of my wedding. It was the car that was taking me to marry the love of my life which I was really excited for. It was an amazing ceremony on a gorgeous sunny day followed by one heck of a reception! I don’t believe I was nervous that day… so it must of been excitement I was feeling.
Words that come out of my mouth are never practiced or pre-thought out. They just happen. Only once have I ever written down what I was going to say before I said it. My wedding vows. Which were created very last minute. It was 3 am the day before my wedding (or I guess that would morning of!) and I wrote them in bed. I always left my homework to the last minute as well. So of course that means I entered into that meeting with my boss not prepared at all.
As I was about to tell him I could feel butterflies in my tummy. The exact same ones you get when you line up for a roller coaster you have never been on. Which must mean I was feeling nervous and excited! Somehow the words came out but how they did I have no idea.
None the less, the meeting went good. My co-workers are all happy for me and it sure feels good to finally let the cat out of the bag. A weight is off my shoulders that I didn’t even know I had!
Now to find out how Scott’s meeting went….
Congratulations!! I was super nervous when we tipped our hand – you’re right, excited, anxious, nervous, happy all rolled into one. That seems so long ago now though as everyone is cheering me on to our departure date. Go out and celebrate tonight!!
Are they giving you a floating departure date? i.e. 2 weeks (or more) notice for when you’ll stop working? Did they offer your job back (If) when you come home?
Things haven’t been announced yet to the big wigs so to speak thus there has been no talk of hire back etc as they don’t . Only my department knows the news so far and they don’t have much control of things. I told them June 1st is when I’m hoping but if things don’t go as planned then I need to push that back a month but would know a few weeks beforehand if I needed to do that. They didn’t seem to have a problem with this and said they will officially announce it to the rest of the company when I have a more concrete idea.
@Gillian, No celebrations yet… but will for sure this weekend!! =)