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Well, January 2023 has been a lot less fun than Nov/Dec 2022.
After only 9 weeks on the new job, my contract was terminated with no warning. This is expected; proper security procedures say "do not give the disgruntled person a chance to fuck with things". What wasn't expected was the lack of explanation after the fact, or any conversations beforehand to discuss their concerns with my performance. (And every time *I* tried to instigate such a conversation, I was told, "wait until the new year when everybody is setting goals". Well, I guess now I know what goals they have for me for the new year. :/ )
I'm getting decent traction with recruiters for potential new gigs, though, so we'll see whether this is a bump in the road or retirement. (If it's retirement, that'll be OK, but we were planning on another ~10 years of income to make sure the nest egg lasts as long as we need it to at a burn rate that lets us spend our time how we want to.)
The other shoe dropped a week or so later when a friend of extremely long standing (1984 at least, possibly 1983, and now I can't !@#$% ask him) passed after years of medical issues. I have a lot I want to say about this, but I don't reckon this is the place.
Oh, and our wall oven died when its control board blew some capacitors and caught on fire; our repair folks can't find the parts, so it looks like a new oven is in our very near future, to the tune of a few thousand dollars right after I lost my job. Good thing the aforementioned nest egg is in good shape.
So, to recap: unemployed, bereft, finances are fine and will continue to be so, but big D (and not the fun kind) energy.
After only 9 weeks on the new job, my contract was terminated with no warning. This is expected; proper security procedures say "do not give the disgruntled person a chance to fuck with things". What wasn't expected was the lack of explanation after the fact, or any conversations beforehand to discuss their concerns with my performance. (And every time *I* tried to instigate such a conversation, I was told, "wait until the new year when everybody is setting goals". Well, I guess now I know what goals they have for me for the new year. :/ )
I'm getting decent traction with recruiters for potential new gigs, though, so we'll see whether this is a bump in the road or retirement. (If it's retirement, that'll be OK, but we were planning on another ~10 years of income to make sure the nest egg lasts as long as we need it to at a burn rate that lets us spend our time how we want to.)
The other shoe dropped a week or so later when a friend of extremely long standing (1984 at least, possibly 1983, and now I can't !@#$% ask him) passed after years of medical issues. I have a lot I want to say about this, but I don't reckon this is the place.
Oh, and our wall oven died when its control board blew some capacitors and caught on fire; our repair folks can't find the parts, so it looks like a new oven is in our very near future, to the tune of a few thousand dollars right after I lost my job. Good thing the aforementioned nest egg is in good shape.
So, to recap: unemployed, bereft, finances are fine and will continue to be so, but big D (and not the fun kind) energy.