Yikes, sorry to hear about the layoff Tom. As others have said, hopefully this will work out for the best and let you score a new job that will be fulfilling and enjoyable for you.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2012 11:21:58 am PST #19365 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:33:53 am PST #19366 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom, I've also been thinking about the time I decided I was going to quit my job, like six months in the future, and then I got fired the next week. I was SO PISSED and hurt and everything else, even though I hated that fucking place by then. "I'm not fired! I QUIT!!" Anyway, just saying.
Kat - Jan 31, 2012 11:37:34 am PST #19367 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pertussis outbreak = no good. Jeebus, Amy.
My nose is runny and I feel like shit. But it's finals week and I have to be here every day. Yay for forced stockpiling of sick days?
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
Zenkitty - Jan 31, 2012 11:47:18 am PST #19368 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
...what? Are you serious?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:55:26 am PST #19369 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, what?
sumi - Jan 31, 2012 12:00:52 pm PST #19370 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
That's just bizarre, Kat.
How does that work?
amyth - Jan 31, 2012 12:05:16 pm PST #19371 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Kat, that's messed up.
Burrell - Jan 31, 2012 12:17:15 pm PST #19372 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I wish I was surprised Kat, but knowing your employer, I'm not.
I think--I hope!--I just successfully talked a student out of writing a paper comparing medical residency to comedy writing and/or sex. Oy vey!
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 12:40:34 pm PST #19373 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Zenkitty, here is my bookmarked Pick-Me-Up link. [link]
billytea - Jan 31, 2012 1:00:26 pm PST #19374 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Tom, I was in a very similar position about three years ago. I'd been with my company for fourteen years, the job had turned somewhat toxic over the last few, I got laid off in the wake of the GFC, and thanks to my length of service, my severance was enough to take stock for a bit. I don't know how you're feeling about it right now (my reaction turned out to be relief), but in any case, I hope that when you find your next job, you look back on this as a positive occurrence.
One thing I'd suggest, either in addtiion to or in lieu of the headhunting idea - you might find it helpful to talk to an outplacement firm. I found it very helpful in sorting out just what shape I wanted my next career move to take, and what I could find in the job market. (One caveat - my firm arranged for outplacement services for everyone who was laid off, so I don't know what it'd cost out of your own pocket.)