The Glade 4.0

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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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

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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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Ouch, you work for BOfA?

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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.

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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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

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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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

what kind of engineering?

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

Good luck Aethien!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

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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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge