Time For A Change

[Duophonic]

Thelma seems a good'un.

Good for you Baar.

[bramblerose]

My friend qualified as a counsellor/therapist a few years ago now and has waiting lists and regular clients and it doing very well for herself.

The change in her is also amazing to see.

You'll be absolutely fine, baa. It's daunting setting up your own business but you'll be able to pick who you see, when you see them and how many people you aee. It'll life changing but in a good way.

[Princess Morripov]

You'll absolutely smash this, Baa. What a brave but great step, good luck!

[baargain]

OH SHIT I JUST QUIT MY JOB

[Princess Morripov]

YASS!

[baargain]

AAAH AHHH AHHH

I do now have a number for an excellent accountant who looks after a few other private therapists.

[sally maclennane]

This is very exciting! How did they take the news?

[baargain]

I haven't told everyone yet, and am controlling the flow of info til I've told all the people I want to tell to their faces. But everyone is basically devastated/really sad, but all completely get it.

[Glint]

Excellent progress!

[sally maclennane]

I haven't told everyone yet, and am controlling the flow of info til I've told all the people I want to tell to their faces. But everyone is basically devastated/really sad, but all completely get it.

I'm not surprised that they're devastated! You'll be a big loss.

[baargain]

Omg. My line manager just offered me a gig offering supervision as a private supervisor. To the same service I am trying to leave :lol: no ta :lol:

She was like "I'm sure you want a clean break, and do say no if that is what you want to do, but would you be interested...?"

[Annabella]

How weird - go you Baa!

[Montana]

Well done, baar. Exciting times! And how satisfying that they clearly don't want to let you go!

[absley]

Well done Baa, it's so exciting!

[Red]

Congrats on the move, baa! It will all be worth it as you are excellent at your job.

[baargain]

Oh I told my poor lovely colleagues. No one predicted it, and their faaaces :cry:

The first half of the meeting was a fucking shambles though as an upper manager came and was a fucking nightmare :lol: so that helped.

Just my supervisees to tell next week. Oof.

[Lola]

I tried to resign today & sat my boss down to tell him. He was horrified & asked if there was anything he could do to change my mind :)) So we had a good honest chat & I said it was the workload plus the back to the office mandate, and to cut a long story short, he’s going to take some tasks off me, I’m putting in a flexible working request to work one day a week from home because of my current circumstances*, and when my colleague returns from maternity leave later in the year I can potentially go down to 4 days a week. So I didn’t resign

*my mum has got breast cancer for the 2nd time. It’s very early stage & pre-invasive, so she should be ok after an op and some radiotherapy :fc:

[Hazey_Jane]

Oh wow Luna, that seems to have worked out well (and best wishes for your mum)

[emma_p]

That sounds really good Lola. Yes, best wishes to your mum.

[Disco]

That's great they worked things out to keep you, and lots of good wishes for your mum.