Morning gents!
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Morning Shaun, how are you doing this morning?
Hey Scott - doing better than expected. Still a little down, just doing everything I can to stay positive and keep moving forward.
So I'll tell you a little story Shaun, I got "let go" for the first time 3-1/2 years ago. After 5 years with the company they brought in a new operations guy whom I just didn't gel with, could tell right away it was going to be an issue. I went to upper management after a year and threw my hat in the ring for a transfer inside the company, I was let go 3 weeks later. I felt like I got really douched.
I was out of work for 2 months and my only regret was that I didn't get more done aggressively around my house, I felt like I had to spend every waking moment looking for a job and wound up not making the best of the time I had off. Just food for thought and that's the last semi-positive thing I'm going to say this morning.
And about 8 years ago I got it when working for a consultant as the Director of Operations, largest customer cancelled a contract and they cut 66% of the division workforce the next day which was between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I went to my duck lease for 4 days with my son and brother then came back and hit the ground runnning. Found a job right after the first of the year but not able to start for a month or so. It was a great job but 10 months later Lehman Brothers folded up and they held a $100,000 million line of credit on the company which collapsed instantly. Company hung on for 3 months then folded by calling us and saying "sorry but your pay has not been deposited this morning"......... You can only look for a job so many hours in a day, I usually did that between 8 and 10 or so in the morning then as Fish said tried to catch up on all those low cost things that needed doing around the house, etc that i just never got around to. Month or so later got hired back to my old job but had to relocate to do it and here I am now back where I started doing what I was doing when I left 10 years ago....... It will work out but there might be some bumps along the way and that is where being young helps out.
I worked for 49 years. retired from the State after 30 of those. I missed out on a lot of things. I doubt I'll go to my grave wishing I worked more. I understand 'obligations', but make time to enjoy life, family, friends, and yourself. good luck finding that balance, few do.
