Wow. The day has finally come. We both quit our jobs! It’s a relief but it also produced some stress and a few sleepless nights. But it’s all behind us and the whole traveling plan is becoming more and more real every day.

Quitting was not an easy task for us. I have been at my job for 6 years and 4 months which translates to 20% of my life (accountant's way of thinking hehe). It became a huge part of my life and my identity. I even got an excel themed cake for my birthday one year! Yes, I do love excel and I plan on using it during our travels to track our expenses. You can take the girl out of a cubicle but you can't get her to stop loving excel. Oh no.  :-) 

There are many great things about working that I will miss in the next year such as the great people I worked with, learning new things, feeling accomplished when I met all my daily deadlines, my spacious cubicle decorated with travel photos, steadily worse tasting coffee from Financier in my office building, stability, predictability of my daily tasks sprinkled with the excitement and stress of various breaks and technology issues, and also bi-weekly paychecks ;-). 

We both gave 5 weeks notice so we still have time to wrap up our lives before we pack them into our backpacks and hit the road. We are leaving our apartment on the Upper West Side and moving all of our belongings to my parents’ basement in Queens. We already miss this area and our New York City dwelling. It’s been such a great time. But thankfully we have lots of memories (and photos that I took) to remember this place by for the rest of our lives. 

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World Financial Center / Brookfield Place