Last Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be my last day at the the job I started four years ago. My first actual day of work was Monday. December 3rd, 2001 but because I was originally paid monthly I was on the payroll as of December 1st. Thanks to a merger, a hostile take-over, and switching to working as a contractor under my own corporation I have actually worked for four different companies in these past four years, but it has all been the same job (which poses an interesting puzzle for in résumé writing). It was fabulous in the beginning but now I am more than happy to move on to the next thing.

The new job starts Monday. I've already picked up the bus-pass I'll need for the commute. I should have checked the holiday hours before I got it. It turns out Port Moody City Hall is closed the entire week between Christmas and New Year's so I would have been more economical to pick up fare-savers since I won't have to commute that week. Oh, well. Whoops. I'm going to miss being a block from work, but I'm looking forward to getting more reading done.

The new job should be interesting because there is a weird continuity there already. I did all the programming for for Port Moody's first website in 1996 when I was working for a mom-and-pop print/design house that was doing web development on the side. Then I re-did Port Moody's website in 2000 when I was working as an independent contractor before the dot.com crash. Now I am going back as a civic employee to maintain the website I started almost ten years ago.

With companies merging, folding, splitting, imploding, etc. 2002 and 1987 are the only tax years since I finished high-school and started fending for myself where I have simply had one T4 to submit and could actually use the basic T1 return. I'm not planning to fold my corporation any time soon so it's not likely to ever happen again, either. Yet, despite my apparent inability to have less than two irons in the fire there is a weird continuity to all this.