Today in our team meeting at work I told my colleagues that, unless something changes, my last day of work will be June 25, 2010. I'm part of a four-year, 280-client conversion project that was scheduled to complete in January 2012. Before the holidays, I had told the teammate I walk with at lunch that if the project was moved up to finish a year early I might stay on until the last conversion.

I heard at the meeting today the project may be moved up to finish in April 2011 - not a year early, but almost.

My walking buddy said, "That's finishing up a lot sooner than January 2012. Would you stay?"

I said, "Nope."

I didn't even have to think about it.