Dust Unsettles

Today I opened my company-issued laptop and took a look at my calendar. I had a morning filled with three meetings and then had the afternoon free. This would normally be a pretty standard day were it not my last actual day of work with Thrivent Financial, a company I have been with for 4 years. It was a weird day of finality - they are not the first company I have left, but they are the first company I have left reluctantly. Believe it or not, this adds a hint of bitterness to many things like "last meeting" and "last document."

My time at Thrivent started in late 2015. Actually, it was December 7th, 2015 which means I will be ending my career with Thrivent just barely shy of 4 years. My new employer is very excited to have me on board and I am very excited to start working with them, otherwise I would stick it out another couple weeks just for the sentiment of it.

These years have been some of the best I have had in my professional career and some of the most transformative of my life. I don't want to get into an exhaustive post-mortem of my time at Thrivent, but four years ago I was living in North Minneapolis with my friends, just coming out of the hospital for a condition likely induced by stress. Now I am living in Seattle with the love of my life and I once again get to enjoy the excitement of new beginnings in nearly every aspect of my life.

Once upon a time, I told my best friend I would never become complacent. I realize now that my last months at Thrivent were marked by it and I was not myself. Today, I feel rejuvenated by the promise of a mighty future. It's as if I was stalled out on the side of the road and a new bus has pulled over to pick me up.

I am finally moving again.