Counting Down - 5 Days Left

There is a certain amount of concern around my department now, as people are asking me to get things done before I leave, and document some of the jobs I did so they can hopefully do it for themselves after I've gone.

I had assumed when I gave them four weeks notice, that they would use the time to find somebody to take over my job. It looks like that isn't going to happen, so I am trying to document processes and tasks. However that will only cover the basics. When problems occur, it usually takes experience of the systems to track down the cause. I can write down some of the most common problems/causes, but there's no way I can cover every eventuality.

I'm getting a bit nervous, now I'm into my last week. Moving up to Chester to work at a new place is taking me a long way out of my comfort zone. It has made me realise what a comfortable rut I've been in for the past couple of years. It reminds me of when I left a job I hated at Pizza Express to become a web designer.

It was a dream move away from dull shift work, to doing a challenging new creative job, where I would actually get weekends off. After about a week at the new job, I was having real doubts that I would be able to make it as a professional web designer, and was fantasising about going back to the comfort and ease of working for Pizza Express again. After about another week, I was fine, as I learned the ropes and adapted. I'm sure the first week at the new job will be very similar to that first week as a web designer, and I will have to remember that experience and hope it will go the same way this time.