The Boltons Are Bolting

We've both spent a lot of time complaining about our jobs the past five years. The long hours. The demanding clients. The constant travel to places that should be exciting but when you don't get to see anything but a hotel room are incredibly boring... (Chicago)

But along the way we have learned a lot. Technically, about clinical trials and clinical supply chain management, of course. Not to mention how to succeed while working for a very quickly growing start up software company. We have learned how to manage other people, and perhaps more importantly -- how NOT to manage other people. Moreover, we have discovered the type of leaders we want to be; and though we have not yet necessarily fully become these leaders, at least we have selected a trajectory on which we will continue to grow and hopefully succeed in the future.

Really, we shouldn't have spent any time these past five years complaining. Because in addition to the professional good our jobs have bestowed upon us, there has been much personal good, as well. We met each other, for one. And we have made some brilliant friendships. With people who started off as work friends, who then turned into just friends, and now are pretty much our second family. People who lead our wedding ceremony and with whom we spent most holidays. People with whom we have vacationed in Tahoe and Big Sur and run the 199 miles from Calistoga and Santa Cruz staying up all night in a sweaty van.

But "work" in San Francisco has enabled more than just a crew of professional turned personal friends, too. Our success in our jobs provided justification to keep our individual dreams of living -- and thriving -- in San Francisco a reality. And as such, we forged relationships with others whom we met at bars, restaurants, and spin class. People with whom we have since shared pints of ice cream, bottles of wine, and entire apartments. Trips to Vegas and Palm Springs and Lake Shasta and even the Nob Hill Cat Clinic.

While we can't say we will necessarily miss working, we are very sad to leave "work" and all that has come with it. For all of those extras are San Francisco. And closing this fruitful chapter of our lives is incredibly sad. No matter how exciting the next phase of our adventure through life may be, it is hard to let go of this one...

And yes, we are thinking these thoughts while hoping to take in a sunset off the shores of the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. Perhaps it is fitting that the sun has ducked behind some clouds and that we are probably not going to get to enjoy this sunset. Perhaps it means our time in San Francisco isn't really over, after all. Maybe it is just going to temporarily duck out of our imminent view for a short while.




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