Today is my last day of work for Beacon Technologies, as well as for American Family Insurance, the client site that I have been working at for nearly five years now. I have been fortunate to work for people who have been supportive of my efforts to go to business school, even though that means leaving them. I have not had to keep secrets. I have not had to lie. This is not by accident. I have continued to work here for this long precisely because that is the type of people that I have been working for/with. I could have made more money elsewhere, but working for people that actually treat you well is both hard to find and carries its own intrinsic value that is hard to put a dollar amount on. I'm sure my blood pressure is much lower because of it.

Having said all that, there is no sorrow in my departure. I have successfully advanced my career here, but the momentum has diminished since last Fall. If I was not going to business school, I would likely being moving on to something else anyway.

So, today, I close one chapter in my life and begin to write the next. I've commented to Elizabeth several times that some day we will look back fondly at our "quiet years in Wisconsin". We have little doubt that the next 5 years will be decidedly more exciting. And demanding.

--Chris