Gauging the future, work-wise.
Today my team found out that there are some major budget cuts coming down the pipe, and although things are very vague and undecided, there's a chance that our jobs may be at risk. That's all my manager knows for now, and she wasn't even supposed to tell us that much. She also said she's updating her resume just in case.
I had known something was coming over the weekend and tried to figure out what I hoped for. I don't want to stay here forever. I do want to go back to school and change careers. I spoke to my manager alone after the announcement and proposed the following: I work until the end of October (the company's date for moving to Walnut Creek), then get three or four months of severance. This should give me plenty of time to hunt for other work and a nice cushion to get me through to spring semester next year, when hopefully I can start school full time.
She'd really rather keep me, and isn't sure at all if it's a good idea now to take that offer to her superiors, so we're both just sitting on it for a while. My thought was that it would be best to control my own exit to get maximum benefit, and also maybe stave off other people being cut. We'll see. I'm glad I mentioned it to her.
Since it looks like funding for Trousers' main job will be ending in September too, life does seem a bit scary and uncertain for now. For the moment, I feel confident that things will work out well for us.
I had known something was coming over the weekend and tried to figure out what I hoped for. I don't want to stay here forever. I do want to go back to school and change careers. I spoke to my manager alone after the announcement and proposed the following: I work until the end of October (the company's date for moving to Walnut Creek), then get three or four months of severance. This should give me plenty of time to hunt for other work and a nice cushion to get me through to spring semester next year, when hopefully I can start school full time.
She'd really rather keep me, and isn't sure at all if it's a good idea now to take that offer to her superiors, so we're both just sitting on it for a while. My thought was that it would be best to control my own exit to get maximum benefit, and also maybe stave off other people being cut. We'll see. I'm glad I mentioned it to her.
Since it looks like funding for Trousers' main job will be ending in September too, life does seem a bit scary and uncertain for now. For the moment, I feel confident that things will work out well for us.