Those of you who follow the lame soap opera that is my life are probably aware I got laid off at the end of April, and my wife informed me she was leaving me on July 2nd. I was pretty depressed over all of this, the only things keeping me from snuffing myself being the fact that I have to take care of my parents and my inability to totally deny the possibility of a wretched afterlife (I’m one of those 99% atheist/1% agnostic types). Well, things are better.
First, in the last few weeks I’ve come to accept that I’m not going to be married anymore and in the last few days I’ve been kinda looking forward to it - I have stopped dwelling on all the things I loved about my wife and started thinking about all the things about her that annoyed me. I’ve started checking ring fingers on all the women I meet, and from time to time I move my ring over to my pinky when I go out (at my wife’s suggestion, she’s doing her best to be supportive). I think I’m going to like being on the market again, and I’ve lost a lot of weight in the last few weeks because of my depression and I think I’m looking pretty good.
Secondly, I got a job today. It’s in tech support, and it pays the same as what I made when I broke into the industry in '95, but there’s lots of room for promotion (as opposed to a slightly better paying job I turned down a couple of months ago because there was only one level to the department, with one manager over it), and both people I interviewed with were very impressed with my experience and knowledge - one even told me that they sometimes don’t follow their guideline of requiring a person to work there 6 months before promotion and said she thought I’d be a good trainer, apparently I got one of their top scores ever on their skill assessment test. I’m already working towards being the promotable sort, remembering the names of everyone I meet and making an attempt to be outgoing and friendly towards everyone. I didn’t want to be promoted at my old job because I would be paid only a little more for a lot more work, but now I find myself filled with ambition.
So things are going well for me, and I’m looking forward to the future again. Yee-haw!
Hey! Congrats! We don’t know each other but, I’m really happy for you. I was in a not totally dissimilar position myself at one time. Continued success!
Badtz, allow me to add my best wishes to the list, and I have a question: Your wife is actually being supportive in giving you tips on finding someone else!?
We’re having a Doper party at my place tonight (Friday the 26th) at 7:30 to celebrate a birthday. Want to come?
It’s casual - dips and things to dip in them, beer/malternatives/pina coladas, and party games - and it starts around 7:30. We’d all love to see you, man - why don’t you come?
I’m sorry I just read this. I would love to go out tonight, but my wife has gone out with her friend and I don’t have a ride. If anyone cares to come pick me up…I’ll check this board in a few minutes.
Heh, my wife thinks the email from the HR person was overly enthusiastic about welcoming me to the company, read it out loud as if it was a love letter, and added ‘PS you’re cute’ on the end. Heh.
