Two days left…
My summer job at Alcan will end up on Friday. I'm sad. I really liked working there, it was a very rewarding and challenging experience, totally different from everything I've done before. I met great people, felt useful, appreciated, encouraged. Today at lunch I was looking at the place and the faces around me and I felt like crying (sentimental fool that I am...) -- I'm ready to move on and go back to school, but I suppose I still have this great ability to get attached, especially to things I enjoy doing and people who are nice to me.
This was a beautiful opportunity and I learned a lot about this region, but also a big deal about myself and the things I'm capable of doing. Working at Alcan helped me find even more independence and now I realize that I can do plenty of things on my own with no problem. When they gave me this job they didn't know how much impact it would have in my life, a great impact. I compare everything I do now to what I did when I was married and the only thing I can think of now is how sad it is the person I was with never gave me credit. I would've rocked his world. His loss.
So for all this I'm grateful. I'm happy to know that I'm leaving this place with no regrets, no sad memories. It was good, all good. And who knows, maybe next year I'll be an industrial hygiene technician again, with some experience on the field. Life goes on!
