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| Author: | Aethien [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Hi, my name is Redundancy, what's yours? |
Well, it happened - I got laid off from my job this week. This could either be a rant or a rave, really, and I'm leaning toward rave, because frankly I was hating the job and the position I'd been stuck in after two mergers/acquisitions. And it was a horrible round of cuts throughout the administrative/corporate (support, non-billable) staff. My former co-worker called it a "gutting". So, I'm not taking it personally. They axed people with 25, 30 years of experience with the company. I had 13 years with various incarnations of the company. And it's funny, but I've never been laid off. Of course, I've never really worked for the private sector on a permanent basis until I took this job. Spent years in college, grad school, working summer jobs for municipalities, or temp jobs that I needed to tide me over. So, I'm one of those 50-something guys who wakes up one day and says, What the hell do I do now? At least, in a roundabout fashion. So, I will come back and rant occasionally as I work my way through this. I'm thinking career-change (out of tech), or maybe a mix of things. First I have to sit down with the family and take stock, figure out what we can live on, what we can do without. This should be an interesting time. |
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| Author: | Foamy [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hi, my name is Redundancy, what's yours? |
Best of luck to you. I know it's not easy. Been through it a few times already, and I expect to go through it again. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:41 pm ] |
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Ouch, you work for BOfA? |
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| Author: | Aizle [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:14 pm ] |
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Good luck Aethien. Having been laid off before, it sucks, but you will find work again and hopefully in a better position than where you were before. |
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| Author: | LadyKate [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:43 pm ] |
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Sorry, Aethien. Good luck! I got out of tech and now I'm waitressing, haha! I certainly hope you find something better than that. Maybe this will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:21 pm ] |
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Thanks for the encouragement, folks. I actually said to my wife the other night that I bet I'd make a good waiter. At least I wouldn't take my work home with me. But, yeah, looking into other things, maybe something creative, since I do live in Hollywood, more or less. Maybe part-time work, giving me time to write. And, no, Hop, I don't work for BofA! Er, didn't. Just a large faceless engineering corporation that lives off of contracts from local municipalities, etc. |
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| Author: | Leshani [ Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:33 pm ] |
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what kind of engineering? |
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| Author: | Jasmy [ Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hi, my name is Redundancy, what's yours? |
Good luck Aethien! |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:46 pm ] |
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Leshani wrote: what kind of engineering? Sheesh, sorry, Leshani - didn't notice that you had asked something. Now that I don't spend all day at work on this board, I miss things ...  Civil and environmental engineering - drinking water treatment, wastewater, brownfields recovery - pretty much anything that a municipality will pay for. And, thanks, Jasmy! |
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