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6 years ago
So, I guess I should have made a journal about this a week ago, but I guess I just spent most of last week vegging out and doing practically nothing 😖
Last Friday was the last day of my previous job (front-end web developer). The lease on the office was up for renewal, and so the head office got this idea in their heads that they wanted to relocate the whole team down to Melbourne to unite all the web dev employees in one location. So they decided to shut down the Brisbane office. The prospects of moving all the way to Melbourne and moving away from family (my brother and his wife live here in Brissy, and my parents live up north in Gympie which is only a 2 hour drive away) was too much for me, so I opted to stay here and be made redundant instead.
So here I am, unemployed. I can probably find a new job, but I've been a bit lax in arranging the new one just yet. I had over 300 hours of unused leave built up (due to crunch times and my lack of planning vacations), and that on top of the redundancy pay has probably earned me a bit of unofficial "vacation time". So yeah, hence the last week of doing basically nothing… 😮
So yeah. It was a busy last two weeks and we got the whole office packed up. It was bittersweet to say goodbye to my coworkers, but also good riddance on having to deal with that legacy codebase. My boss gave me a $100 JB-HiFi card which was nice. I spent way too long undecided on what to buy, and ended up getting some silly LIFX bulbs to mess with. The idea was maybe to buy a Switch, but Nintendo hasn't really done much to win me over so I didn't really want to jump into buying it.
Last Friday was the last day of my previous job (front-end web developer). The lease on the office was up for renewal, and so the head office got this idea in their heads that they wanted to relocate the whole team down to Melbourne to unite all the web dev employees in one location. So they decided to shut down the Brisbane office. The prospects of moving all the way to Melbourne and moving away from family (my brother and his wife live here in Brissy, and my parents live up north in Gympie which is only a 2 hour drive away) was too much for me, so I opted to stay here and be made redundant instead.
So here I am, unemployed. I can probably find a new job, but I've been a bit lax in arranging the new one just yet. I had over 300 hours of unused leave built up (due to crunch times and my lack of planning vacations), and that on top of the redundancy pay has probably earned me a bit of unofficial "vacation time". So yeah, hence the last week of doing basically nothing… 😮
So yeah. It was a busy last two weeks and we got the whole office packed up. It was bittersweet to say goodbye to my coworkers, but also good riddance on having to deal with that legacy codebase. My boss gave me a $100 JB-HiFi card which was nice. I spent way too long undecided on what to buy, and ended up getting some silly LIFX bulbs to mess with. The idea was maybe to buy a Switch, but Nintendo hasn't really done much to win me over so I didn't really want to jump into buying it.
I'm sorry about your job though. But 300 hours-- that's not a typo is it? That'd be a massive payout! I hope it helps you out while you hunt for your next job, Kree. (maybe on a farm ...)
Also why Lifx?
I've got family in Melbourne, so I'm not opposed to going there on occasion, but I much prefer living close to family ;)
I was pretty undecided in the store, since I wasn't really into the Switch, and so I just wandered for too long, and eventually thought it'd be fun to mess around with some IoT-enabled light bulbs 😛