Today I went into Test Equipment World Domination Headquarters to officially end my employment there. It amounted to me opening up QuickBooks and entering my termination date. When I put in June 29th as my final day (the last day of my last pay period), QB asked if I was deceased. Well not exactly, so I didn't check that box. I'll still be putting in some hours with Jon, but not as an employee. I am now a highly paid consultant to Northern Test. I'll be coming in to do some mercenary work and leave. Ahhhh the life of an independent contractor.
Monday I went into the bike shop to help Jamie and Jen do inventory. Not much got done. The point of sale software that the shop uses asks for a bunch of information that cannot be transfered from the current program. If we set it up right, it ought to work pretty well, but the initial data entry is going to take a while. Jamie's plan for training me in consists of this - follow him and the other employees around for a couple of weeks. It's actually not a bad plan. There's really no chance of training during off hours. On Mondays the shop is closed (hence the time to do inventory). In the 4 hours I was there for inventory, there were probably a dozen or so people wanting to come in and look around. Eventually I want to be able to get in and keep the shop open on Mondays and extend the hours the rest of the week. The idea of working at this shop has been such a long time coming, it hardly seems real now that it's happening. I really hope it will work out.
I would like to post here more, but since I don't have a job sitting staring at a computer screen all day, it will probably be a bit more difficult to do it as often as I used to. The quality of the posts will suffer too, if that is at all possible.
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