Hey! It's been awhile, also known as "2020, the year from hell"
So I've been on furlough for a couple months. My employer's definition of furlough has thankfully been keeping my medical insurance for the two of us, and being able to collect unemployment.
It looks like the host company will be bringing back 10% of their employees this month. There are two of our team of 5 who have been keeping things going in the building up to now. If all goes well the other 3 of us should be back to our positions sometime in January.
I have mixed feelings about this, not knowing at this time where a vaccine will be. It will be good to get back to work, but I'll be back to 111 miles one way to work which means my car's going to hate me again. Lately, it's been happy to snooze days on end in the garage.
I'm hoping that my fur buddy will still be okay with letting me stay overnight at his place a couple days a week like before. Eventually, I really need to find work closer to home, but jobs will be scarce for likely a long time because of the businesses going under due to the pandemic and its massive mismanagement.
It's still too long until retirement. I'm 61, and the very earliest I could possibly shoot for is 66 and ten months. Renee wants me to try for 70 which would be the highest payout from SS, and I'm like sure, if my body will hold out that long. I might go for the former one mainly because I'm just done with how terrible and dismal work conditions have become in my field, and it's really too late to start over with anything else.
It looks like the host company will be bringing back 10% of their employees this month. There are two of our team of 5 who have been keeping things going in the building up to now. If all goes well the other 3 of us should be back to our positions sometime in January.
I have mixed feelings about this, not knowing at this time where a vaccine will be. It will be good to get back to work, but I'll be back to 111 miles one way to work which means my car's going to hate me again. Lately, it's been happy to snooze days on end in the garage.
I'm hoping that my fur buddy will still be okay with letting me stay overnight at his place a couple days a week like before. Eventually, I really need to find work closer to home, but jobs will be scarce for likely a long time because of the businesses going under due to the pandemic and its massive mismanagement.
It's still too long until retirement. I'm 61, and the very earliest I could possibly shoot for is 66 and ten months. Renee wants me to try for 70 which would be the highest payout from SS, and I'm like sure, if my body will hold out that long. I might go for the former one mainly because I'm just done with how terrible and dismal work conditions have become in my field, and it's really too late to start over with anything else.