Nik lives in Essex, UK and works in London as the editor of MacUser magazine. The posts and comments on this site do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions of values of his employers.
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The wheels are well and truly in motion. In the six years I’ve been at the mag, I’ve seen about 50 people leave, and signed the leaving papers of perhaps a quarter of them. Now mine have been signed, and I had my exit interview after lunch.
Exit interview sounds so terminal. Like a debriefing before you die. It’s the bookend on the far side of your career in the company - the mirror to the interview that got you the job in the first place.
And then out went the invites for next week’s leaving do.
Which leaves nothing to do except work out my last five days. And they are going to be long days. Not because they will drag, but because I will work late until the end of each one. Tonight, I left at eight. I did the same last night, and will probably do it again tomorrow.
I always thought that working out your notice was supposed to be about taking things easy, not really caring what went on and browsing the net from 10 until 6, but it seems I was wrong. I’m busier now than I have been in the last 12 months.
I also - reluctantly - handed in a second resignation today. From the slot I do each Sunday night on LBC. It’s been fun, and it ends a three year association with the station, but in moving to a fortnightly magazine I don’t see that I’ll have time to put in the work to do it properly. I’ll have a lot of fond memories of the place, but it’s not the same doing a slot from home by ISDN as it was doing longer shows live in the studio, so perhaps it was time to move on, anyhow.
Either way, I’ll miss it, but I think my future, really, is in writing.
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