I {heart} them!

I haven't advertised this much, but I have accepted a job at another ElderPlace site (there will be commentary about this in a later post when I have successfully processed the emotionalism of this decision and the fallout following it). I have worked at my current location for 6 years and 4 months and this was one of the absolute most difficult decisions I've had to make in my fairly short life. To leave was to not only leave the stability, comfort and security of the place I almost consider home; it also meant leaving some of the people that are close to family for me. I spend most of my time in a given day at work and am surrounded by people I love dearly, both participants and staff and some of those staff are my dear office mates.

I have shared an office with two of these three for the entirety of my "career" at ElderPlace and one of them is like a second father to me. So, to make the decision to leave was also to make the decision to say goodbye to these close to my heart people. Though I will still see them, it will never be the same. For them, and all other that I am leaving behind at a site I dearly love, I thank them for who they are and who they've helped me to be. This is my last week at my current site and in honor of that--Office Mate photo time!

L to R: Kevin, Donna, John and me. January 2012

Such a group!