two weeks notice

I feel like a cow that just announced my milk was going dry and now I’m being milked for every last drop! Seriously. They are working me silly. I’ve pulled two 12 hour days in the past week, andt the lamest thing about it is that I’m losing momentum on Create Blank! I committed to giving 100% until my last day but it’s just pulling it all out of me — I have nothing left when I get home. 

Fortunately, that all will change one week from tomorrow!

I’ll kick off my freedom by meeting up with one of the commercial brokers that showed me some space I liked on Mississippi. It sounds like they’re having trouble leasing some of these new retail units, so I’m interested to hear what kinds of concessions can be made. 

A few days after I meet with her, I have a pre-planned trip to Victoria, BC with my moms, then I jet to Cabo for some 1:1 with my sis and then to Copper Mt. with Jacob, dad and Suzette for Labor Day. The Cabo thing was the only last minute trip. Reagan was planning on going with a friend that bailed so I swooped in. I’m hoping to cleanse and do some creative thinking on rental supply packaging, inventory and craft bundles. I’m hoping I don’t get swine flu because, hello, I don’t have insurance!

I paid the $23.95 for trip insurance which covers doctors visits, medical transportation and any catastrophic illness or injury, as long as it happens on the trip. I also need to get a general catastrophic policy for the next few months until I can afford better.

I’m still working out the part-time negotiations with my agency. It sounds like it’s going to be project-based. We’ll agree on an hourly rate which will probably be between $30-35 and then I’ll provide an hours estimate at the start of the project and bill to actual. Now when I work a 12-hour day I’ll actually get paid for it! 

I’ll see how long I can take the part-time gig before I go insane. A lot of kinks need to be worked out to make my agency and the proposal process less painless for all involved. I know a lot of my coworkers feel the same frustrations. So many of them are curious about what I’m doing with Create Blank and I wonder if I’ve awakened the entrepreneur within them as well!

It’s interesting that I’ve felt a lot closer to many of my coworkers in the past few weeks. I was frustrated for so long because I wasn’t working on many creative projects and just recently I’ve had a few that have allowed more integration with the creative department. Huh. Funny how things go.

After you resign, the last two weeks at the job are truly bizarre. It’s like a time warp. You’re in the present, but it’s like you’re in the past. You’re almost moving backwards. For a lot of people, I’m sure they wind down and head out. But the ad business just comes in waves and right now we’re riding a big one and I can’t just bail.

What’s crazy is that I still enjoy parts of it. It’s not like I’m totally fed up. I still have passion. It’s a little confusing, but it’s good because I must have realized at some point that my passion for advertising was at risk.

And so, I’m preserving it by putting a new spin on it. Advertising for my own business. Total autonomy. Creative license. Collaborating with people I believe in and whose instincts I trust. There’s nothing better than a good team. And there’s nothing better than knowing that I have the final say when it comes down to it. 

One week to go…

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