free at last!!!

Yesterday was my last day as an official, full time salaried employee, and like the rest of the week, it was completely crazy. Kathryn left a complete mess for everyone to clean up, so we were scrambling to get that stuff done, Sue was on deadline for Physician's Practice, so I had to write and edit articles for her, I had to organize all my files, finish stuff for Kathleen. I went in at 7 a.m. and didn't leave until after 6 p.m. and I was non-stop all day.

But now I'm officially a contractor, and I am so excited about it. I easily have 40 hours billable next week, I can't even take time off, just dive right into work. Poor Kathleen, when I was leaving, she was saying how much it is going to suck now that I won't be there, since I was the only person who was consistently happy and upbeat and not whining and complaining all the time. "Now I'm going to be stuck with all the complainers." Ding ding ding. That is a huge part of why I'm leaving, because I couldn't deal with the attitude of everyone.

And I talked to Sue, who is thrilled about this arrangement, because she finally gets to do what she envisioned when she created the position for herself, she can do all the strategic stuff, and the emergency communications, and I can take over everything else. I think I can freelance for Sue pretty much as long as I want. Sweeeet.