Major layoffs/demotions/job reassignments at work last week, out of nowhere. Am contemplating major career/life change. Is difficult when your job has become your identity.
Oh yes. In addition to layoffs, half the newsroom got demoted, including me. I mean, people are having to sell their HOUSES to afford the pay cut, and this is TWO WEEKS after the asshole managing editor of the New York Times came down here to tell us what a great quarter we'd had financially, and what a great job we were all doing
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I don't want to stay at Apple and work with a large team on an office suite for the rest of my life (even if it is the worlds coolest multitouch office suite), commuting an hour each way, so I should probably find something else to do. I will probably take some time off after I leave though. Hence vision quest.
Sounds reasonable to me. Have people given you trouble about leaving during a recession? Because I keep hearing that, but this is hardly the Great Depression just yet. And if it's about to be, all the more reason to get a better-fitting job while you can, I say.
All that to say -- vision quest: I'm in. Where does one have those nowadays? Do you wander the subway instead of the forest? Or does it depend on the kind of vision you want?
No way, I'll be leaving my job this summer too. We should throw a party! Except you guys gotta put up the money for it because I'll be, you know, broke and unemployed. (can't exactly job-hunt or house-hunt from here but hey, four years of dedicated service gets me 10 days paid house-hunting leave, yaaaayyy)
The stars must be aligning!!! Although if this is who I think it is, you'll need a bigger party than I can afford (assuming here that welcome-home parties get exponentially bigger the farther away the person was). And will you be needing a vision quest as well?
Will my inner totem animal appear before me at just the right time, conveniently delivering just what I need to hear? If so, sign me up! I've never seen a talking dolphin before...
Wow, I'd forgotten that yours was a dolphin. In that case, I'm looking forward to my talking porcupine. Actually I think it would be cool if he sang, but that might be asking too much.
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All that to say -- vision quest: I'm in. Where does one have those nowadays? Do you wander the subway instead of the forest? Or does it depend on the kind of vision you want?
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