Goodbye, Omgeo!

It’s time to say goodbye again. A month ago, it was to my guild; this time, to my current job. This is the good kind of goodbye – the kind that brings career advancement and new adventures – but a hard goodbye nonetheless.

I’ve never been good at letting go, especially with good things. Omgeo is a good thing – a completely random choice that ended up being the best decision I made in four years. Omgeo was my love where Bennington vexed me. Omgeo taught me while I hassled myself and bored myself while trying to fit in at Bennington. Omgeo gave me the money that Bennington so mightily stripped away. Omgeo was in my favorite city, my home, while Bennington was at the other end of a lonely 150-mile road. Omgeo kept me afloat when the rather poor decision of Bennington might have drowned me, and for that I cannot be more thankful.

Omgeo’s success, in my opinion, is almost entirely embodied by its employees. Omgeo is extremely, practically impossibly, successful – ergo, Omgeo’s employees are the best one can imagine. The best one can, as a 19-year-old internship seeker, hope to meet, work with, and study. The depth of knowledge, determination, creativity and integrity I was met with in every person will continue to humble me and inspire me for years to come.

There is so much individual talent, willful collaboration, strong decision-making, and endless determination in my department especially that I truly cannot imagine Omgeo surviving without Business Information Systems (BIS) to support and care for it, just as BIS has supported and cared for me. There isn’t a better group to learn from and bond with, I’m sure of it. I am moving on because BIS’s teaching, and the teaching from other Omgeans, is allowing me and enabling me to do so. I wouldn’t be in this very good position – to be able to find employment and opportunity doing something I love despite these difficult times – without the furtherance, succor and respect I received while working here at Omgeo. I am extremely lucky and grateful to have met and worked with all of you.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you and take care. Si vales valeo.

“When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
`Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
`The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.'
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”