So today it occured to me that I'm leaving my job on Friday.

Eeek!

Ever since I left university 8 years ago, I have only had two employers (bar a a stint of temping for two months). I don't know if this is because of a misplaced sense of loyalty or because I hate getting out of my comfort zone, but I do know that it was never for the renumeration.

In the past I have gone to extreme lengths to avoid straying from the afore mentioned confort zone, so as I face the end of an error at A.Retail Company Ltd I am starting to wonder if I've made a huge mistake.

You see, here I've been doing a job that I know inside out, where I am the expert in my field, where my team are like day time siblings and we have a laugh together. And at A.N. Other Retail Company I will be the new girl and I won't know where the toilets are or where to go for lunch, let alone how to do the new job and I'll have to make new friends. A week ago I was so excited and now I'm getting cold feet because I suddenly feel like I'm a kid having to start a new school.

But the former-Dreamboat (I need to think of a new moniker for him because the Dreamboat title belongs to one Mr B Love now) took me out to lunch today at the oh so posh and pretentious Ivy (my first time people!) and put it all very succintly;

"Don't think of it as the end of an era...think of it as the start of a new one."

Quite!

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