Finnaly gave the notice....

[millmuff]

So after a year of planning, and changing my mind, and then changing it again. I have finally gave my company the heads up that I will be leaving in November to go travel. I work for a major Telecommunications company in Canada in an IT role and have really struggled with the idea of letting go of a job I worked so hard to land. As bad as it sounds I keep telling myself I can't actually go forward with this but I still am...I think part of it has to do with the fact that I've told so many people I'm doing it and now I dont want to go back on my word!! haha

It crossed my mind about a year ago that if I ever wanted to do that "big trip", that now was the time. So within the next few months my company is probably going to pull every guilt trip possible and we'll see if I can hold strong. I've actually asked for a 6-8 month leave, even though I would like longer I think thats reasonable. If they give me more then great and if not then I guess I get to leave for about as long as I like.

By the time I head out in Nov I will have approx 17 grand give or take saved up. This will be for pretty much everything from flights to accom, etc,etc. So I should have enough to go for a while comfortably. Anyways I just wanted to say thanks to everyone over the last year for the answers and support. I seriously think that if I hadn't came across this page I wouldn't have been able to get the nerve to do a trip of this magnitude.

I'll let you all know how things play out in the next few months.