I came to work Friday three hours late, it was planned as I had my final appointment booked for my medical, I still didn’t have clearance to travel to site, that happened after midday. I received notification during the afternoon when I checked my email at 4 pm, then I knew I was going. I forwarded the notification and prepared myself for the next step, the contract was now live.

I took a class, it was tuning diesel engines that involved inline pump timing, rotary pump timing, mechanical injector setting, EUI setting and finally hydraulic injector testing. This was a routine class for me but it felt nothing like a routine class, when you know you are finished there is a sense of relief that you don’t need to do this anymore. Naturally, I was counting down the sessions with four hours to go, two hours to go and then thirty minutes to go, this was it – I was done.

When I walked back into the staff room it was almost empty, that’s exactly what I wanted as there were just three people left, one left early and as I checked my computer for the final time, I walked through the near empty staff room and headed for the door. I shook two hands and walked out, didn’t look back and headed towards the bus stop. This is exactly the way I wanted to leave, no discussion, no fanfare and I would have been happy to not see anyone. What I wanted to do was walk out, disconnect and never look back and my first action was to do exactly that – I walked out the door and kept walking.