inluminent

As of tomorrow, I’ve got one more week at my current job. It’s tough, but I’m actually getting a lot done. My boss and I were chatting yesterday and he mentioned that he honestly thinks it’ll take a month or two to find a replacement for me.

(A month or two?)

Yep, that’s what he said.

That really makes me sad. I’m an ad sales rep. currently and I’ve got about 40 active clients, and another 150 or so not so active clients. All of them require some level of service on a weekly or monthly schedule. When I think about what I’ve built (trippled their online sales in 12 months) here, and realize that no one will be doing the kind of work I do for at a minimum 6 months (2 months to hire someone, 3-4 months learning what’s been dropped in those 2 months and turning it around) I get pretty depressed.

That’s really just sad to me. I really, really want them to be successful after I leave, but if they aren’t planning on replacing me for 2 months, then I think they’re pretty much fucked from the ad sales and service side… not to mention the trafficking piece of my job (which is much more technical than any sales job ever might be. Think HTML + Flash + CSS + any other web based technology and you’ll scratch the surface.) That’ll be a hard job for anyone to do without some formal training…

It’s just sad.

Oh, well… I’ll leave them in the best condition I can and never look back, I guess.