As if I needed something else to worry about.

I've been a copyeditor at a legal publishing company in town for a year-and-a-half now. It's not very interesting, but the pay is okay and I assumed the work would be steady. However, the client we publish for has not been very happy with me. They have a strict guideline of grammar and citation rules that I can never seem to get down. I work on improving one thing and end up neglecting another. My coworkers and manager has said they just have overly high expectations, and I'll get it with enough time. But it's been long enough that it's a problem.

They're worried the client might not renew the contract in the future. My manager called me in to a one-on-one meeting and says she wants to find me another position in the company. She doesn't think this is a good fit for me, and the client keeps complaining about me. She's wondering how I can turn this around, but I've been trying my damnedest to turn it around for six months now. I got a degree in writing, and I thought I was pretty good at it. Guess not.

I don't know what these other positions she has in mind are. I think we're just waiting for someone else to retire, but the company has been cutting costs everywhere and there's a chance of more layoffs. I don't know whether to stay where I am and hope for the best or quit and try to find something else. Of course, it took me years to find a non-retail job. I hate to go back to filling out 40 applications a day and not hearing anything back, but if I have to I will.

I just renewed my apartment lease for another year and was hoping I could put some money aside as a down payment on a used car. My life has been pretty chaotic over the past years, moving all the time, car repairs, trying to consolidate student loans; my job has been a steady paycheck and something consistent in my life. It's very worrying to me that it might be on the rocks now.

I guess 2016 wasn't done with me yet.