Long workdays can be a good thing to have, but when they happen on a Friday it can definitely wear a person's patience thin to say the least. The new job has been going well the last couple months, and 10 to 11 hour days were becoming a somewhat routine occurence. The circling wolves mentioned in my last post had started to move away (though not entirely) and things were getting back to normal routine. Specifically, cash the cheque and play catch-up by paying off a little more of what I owed due to my previous employer going bankrupt and not paying me (or any of his other employees for that matter).
Adding to the tedium of a long last working day of the week, the route back to the shop from the worksite seemed to take forever as all the major roads were basically grid-locked and looking more like parking lots than expressways. As I got back to the shop, I got a mobile-phone call from one of my old co-workers telling me to check my postal box on my way home. How quickly my mood changed with that phone call!
Sitting there in my box was the cheque I had been waiting for since March, but it was a lot bigger than what I had been expecting. I was only concerned with my final week's wage plus vacation pay, but there was also the termination pay that the bankruptcy trustees had awarded to me. Needless to say, I was a very happy guy last week!
And so the last ties with the job I held for just short of 5 years have now been severed. The last page has been turned and the book closed. Now to continue writing the next volume of my working life, so to speak....
Things are still looking good at my new job, but only time will tell how the new pages are written.
One thing is for sure, they are being written at a faster pace than my blog is.... ;-)
