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Jerb and things...
12 years ago
I haven't be active on here for a long time, there was a reason for that. Those that are twitter and follow me already know...
My job. It was stressful and busy and made me not want to do anything. I ended up making a decision in September to not staff at MWFF this year, it is work and I wanted to relax from work and not even think about such a thing. As such, I quit and went along my way, registered as a regular attendee and continued on with my job.
That was, until September 30th, when I was pulling into a 9am meeting, given a letter that said "Thank-you but your position is now redundant". This was for a job that was six years of my life. They didn't fire me, they permanently laid me off, with six weeks notice (as required by law). Because of the sensitivity of my position, I was told to not come in for those six weeks. That six week period ends today (friday) and one week from today, I receive the last pay cheque from that place, a severance and a small bonus.
So what have I been doing? Job searching as finding an IT Systems Administrator in a "smaller" community like the one I live in is extremely difficult. I've had some success with interviews but no offers as of yet. I spend anywhere from 20 minutes to 4 hours looking for a job per day, depending on how many I can find.
Doing job searching has made it so that I rarely think of anything else, but December is a hard time to look for a job, the market is already slowing down, so I think I will spend more time on something furry related or related to something as least...
But this isn't a sob story, I will get through this and be back on my feet in no time because I can do other things than just take another job and I probably have a few months of employment insurance I can use, if other things don't work out. I'm hopeful and optimistic for the future and have really started to put my head back together after what I've come to realise was a soul crushing job, where I barely ever smiled anymore.
So that's what brings me to this point.
Now, I have the money for MWFF, I'm going down on the Wednesday with
Spazzfox and plan to spending as much time partying as possible. If you see me, please say hello though, I'm never busy and actually have a hard time trying to find things to do.
So... What's going on with you? :D
My job. It was stressful and busy and made me not want to do anything. I ended up making a decision in September to not staff at MWFF this year, it is work and I wanted to relax from work and not even think about such a thing. As such, I quit and went along my way, registered as a regular attendee and continued on with my job.
That was, until September 30th, when I was pulling into a 9am meeting, given a letter that said "Thank-you but your position is now redundant". This was for a job that was six years of my life. They didn't fire me, they permanently laid me off, with six weeks notice (as required by law). Because of the sensitivity of my position, I was told to not come in for those six weeks. That six week period ends today (friday) and one week from today, I receive the last pay cheque from that place, a severance and a small bonus.
So what have I been doing? Job searching as finding an IT Systems Administrator in a "smaller" community like the one I live in is extremely difficult. I've had some success with interviews but no offers as of yet. I spend anywhere from 20 minutes to 4 hours looking for a job per day, depending on how many I can find.
Doing job searching has made it so that I rarely think of anything else, but December is a hard time to look for a job, the market is already slowing down, so I think I will spend more time on something furry related or related to something as least...
But this isn't a sob story, I will get through this and be back on my feet in no time because I can do other things than just take another job and I probably have a few months of employment insurance I can use, if other things don't work out. I'm hopeful and optimistic for the future and have really started to put my head back together after what I've come to realise was a soul crushing job, where I barely ever smiled anymore.
So that's what brings me to this point.
Now, I have the money for MWFF, I'm going down on the Wednesday with
Spazzfox and plan to spending as much time partying as possible. If you see me, please say hello though, I'm never busy and actually have a hard time trying to find things to do.So... What's going on with you? :D
Anyways, see you at MWFF!
I can relate since my work contract ended just about a month ago and have been doing the EI thing.
Good luck on your job search!