Last Day...
Jul. 29th, 2005 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
per_soloToday was the last day at my company.
In trying to finish cleaning the office, and giving out the many doodads I'd collected over the years, I didn't really have time to sit and ponder. As I type, I'm imagining I'm still quite shell shocked.
Today also was the busiest Tech Day I've had in quite a while, and I'm sure it's because the supervisor is out of town until next...Wednesday, I think it is.
Many people dropped by to wish me well, and a few came over to O'Charlie's afterwards, while I had a beer. Had one of "my girls" at the office e-mail me, and express that she hoped all worked out, to keep in touch, and apologizing for not saying goodbye, but she hated goodbyes, and figured I was kinda tired of them too at this point. As I've said previously, I had some of the best users in the world. :-)
Strangely, it was while out driving, and hearing a Huey Lewis song that almost drove me over the edge into just crying...which is weird, of all things...it must be that HL has a very strong mental tie to my "childhood", and the whole "Well, you have to be an adult now" type thing.
So, the plan for this weekend is to relax, as much as I can, because next week it all starts HARD...call every single Placement agency I can think of, comb Careerbuilder, and Monster (hotjobs SUCKS), and work on getting the position I need.
I still find it annoying that the places I've found so far focus on Tech Skills, as opposed to people skills..oh, they'll say that customer service skills are more desirable than the tech, but that MCSE sure looks good to most of them. Something has to be out there...in almost six years, I proved that I can learn the tech skills...they'll just never be as important to me as the people. Yeah, people can and will be replaced..but you can have all the tech in the world, and if your users don't trust you, or aren't happy with how you approach things, the friction that will create is astounding..I've seen it, too many times.
So, yeah, things are rough, I'll be heading over to the Unemployment Office on Monday (first time), and listen and hopefully understand as they give me tips and advice, and then come up with a plan for how to get through the next few months...if I don't find a job in a month, I need to seriously consider a few things I haven't really wanted to consider. Either way, all will work out, eventually, it'll just take time, and yeah, I probably need to take SOME time this weekend to grieve the loss. Sometime. :-)
Enough Angst, I can't wait to just start posting normal again.
In trying to finish cleaning the office, and giving out the many doodads I'd collected over the years, I didn't really have time to sit and ponder. As I type, I'm imagining I'm still quite shell shocked.
Today also was the busiest Tech Day I've had in quite a while, and I'm sure it's because the supervisor is out of town until next...Wednesday, I think it is.
Many people dropped by to wish me well, and a few came over to O'Charlie's afterwards, while I had a beer. Had one of "my girls" at the office e-mail me, and express that she hoped all worked out, to keep in touch, and apologizing for not saying goodbye, but she hated goodbyes, and figured I was kinda tired of them too at this point. As I've said previously, I had some of the best users in the world. :-)
Strangely, it was while out driving, and hearing a Huey Lewis song that almost drove me over the edge into just crying...which is weird, of all things...it must be that HL has a very strong mental tie to my "childhood", and the whole "Well, you have to be an adult now" type thing.
So, the plan for this weekend is to relax, as much as I can, because next week it all starts HARD...call every single Placement agency I can think of, comb Careerbuilder, and Monster (hotjobs SUCKS), and work on getting the position I need.
I still find it annoying that the places I've found so far focus on Tech Skills, as opposed to people skills..oh, they'll say that customer service skills are more desirable than the tech, but that MCSE sure looks good to most of them. Something has to be out there...in almost six years, I proved that I can learn the tech skills...they'll just never be as important to me as the people. Yeah, people can and will be replaced..but you can have all the tech in the world, and if your users don't trust you, or aren't happy with how you approach things, the friction that will create is astounding..I've seen it, too many times.
So, yeah, things are rough, I'll be heading over to the Unemployment Office on Monday (first time), and listen and hopefully understand as they give me tips and advice, and then come up with a plan for how to get through the next few months...if I don't find a job in a month, I need to seriously consider a few things I haven't really wanted to consider. Either way, all will work out, eventually, it'll just take time, and yeah, I probably need to take SOME time this weekend to grieve the loss. Sometime. :-)
Enough Angst, I can't wait to just start posting normal again.
