Yesterday I resigned effective October 3rd. I will be moving to Erlanger Kentucky and working for Toyota. More specifically, I will be working for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America inc. as an Information Systems Security Specialist. There are four "ranks" at Toyota, which are specialist, assistant manager, general manager, vice president, and president. I asked to start as president and they though about it for awhile then decided I should work my way up. After a few days to ponder their decision I am glad to start at the bottom and do what I can for their team. This will be a difficult move since all my children were born in Knoxville, but my oldest daughter was too sweet about this a week ago. When I first told the girls, they were sad and cried about leaving the only place they have ever lived. I took some individual time with each girl so they could express why they were sad about moving. After I let them vent their feelings things were pretty smooth for a few days. My oldest walked up one night with big tears on her cheeks and said: "Daddy, I want to move to Kentucky." I asked her why and she said, " I just want you to be happy at work." That's a sweet girl.
Truly, I have a great job now and will miss my co-workers and the small company. Various circumstances have made this a place where I don't seem to belong now. Sometimes it's hard to look at a situation and realize that you are the part that needs to change or be removed in order for something to be sucessful. Fortunately, I have been in that position before which made the decision a little easier for me. I wish my current company great success and sincerely hope to work with several of them again someday.
1 comment:
I'm going to miss your no-nonsense approach to work. It is hard to find people who are as direct as you. I appreciated that you could tell me exactly what was wrong without dancing around it.
Best of luck to you.
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