Shakened World

I had a great weekend, with it being the girlfriend's birthday party. And the positive mood stretched into Monday morning. I came into the office, had my coffee, checked the day's top stories and last night's sports scores; when at roughly 10am, my world was shaken and would never be the same.

David came to my cubicle and asked if I had time, then lead me to his office. This was unusual, as David is a very easy going guy and he would speak his mind, so to pull me aside like that I knew something was up.

I sat down in his office, and he told me straight up, he was leaving Manulife today. He was offered a better position doing currency exchange, which is his bread and butter. The offer came a while ago but I guess he didn't make the decision till the last weekend. This truly is a sad day for everyone at the office, he's loved by everyone here, but it's hitting me especially hard.

David was there to see my presentation at BCIT, he was there when I came in for Manulife's orientation, and he was the one who helped me pass the LLQP exam and prep for the CFP exam. He was one of the main reasons I signed with Manulife, and when I wasn't sure about something, anything even if it wasn't work related, he'd be there to give me advice. He hid nothing from me and if I needed an honest answer he would be who I went to ask.

I always wondered why he was with our office though. Here's a man who used to work on Wall Street in New York, trading stocks and currency, what was he doing here at Manulife being a Mutual Fund advisor. He always told me that making money on the market was the way to go, but why wasn't he doing it? Sitting there in his office this morning, he told me that in life sometimes you have to take two steps forward one step back, and then and only then did I understand.

I really wish he would've told me earlier, I would've gotten him something. But I understand his reasoning for being tight lipped.

He told me that he's not going to have to worry about me cause I'm a smart guy, but I'm lost more then ever now that he's gone. There's so much I want to learn from David, but it looks like I'm not going to have that opportunity anymore. I feel like Luke, returning to Dagobah in 'Return of the Jedi' to get more training from Yoda, only to have Yoda say that the training is complete, then Yoda passes away. Except my training isn't done yet.

Now thinking back I really wished that I had passed the CFP exam. I didn't have problems telling anyone that I didn't pass except for David, seems like I let him down.

I wish him the best, I hope he makes tonnes of money, in fact I know he'll succeed. Sigh....I don't know how to end this post, I want to end with something that summarizes how sad I am but I can't think of anything so I'll just end it like this.