About an hour ago. I am bouncing around happy. Those people suck and I am so happy to be out of there and moving on to the next part of my life.
Somebody may want to bookmark this thread when two months from now I post another one bitching about no jobs, but for right now, I’m happy. And I’m never happy.
I just want to get a temp job and start working somewhere. I’ve been looking for direct hire jobs for a good year and there aren’t any so I’m not going to just sit around waiting. Being the Xmas season, I might just pick up a retail job and work my nuts off for a couple months.
I’m excited about the possibilities in the world. I was sooo sick of that job, hated the people, hated the culture. I’m printing out some resumes and I’m starting to pound the pavement right now. Hell, I didn’t wake up and shower and shave for nothing.
When I got laid off, I was glad to go. I’m not in a super-tough spot, MrTao is covering things, so it still sucks but the time off was good for many things, including training the new puppy, so it wasn’t all bad.
6 months later I’m itching to get back in, and this whole time I’ve been trying to g+et back to the same job area. But I recently realized that my blood pressure going up during my work there was NOT just ‘you’re getting old’, as it’s back down to super-low levels now. And every time I talk to someone there, they talk about how much WORSE and stressful it is there now, which amazes me, 'cause it was pretty bad morale-wise anyway.
So I’m looking elsewhere, and yep it’s freeing! Good luck, and congratulations
The good thing about temping, if you decide you are not a good fit for the job, you just call your office and tell them, and they try to find you a different placement. Sometimes they like to know if the job people are assholes about something, or request impossibilities.
Back when I was temping in the late 90s, I always managed to get to do envelope stuffing for the advertising office of one of the local humane societies. Nobody else liked it, it was too boring and repetitive, but the people there were sweethearts and it was always a quiet peaceful boring 8 hours of pay for typically a week at a time =)
Congratulations, diggerwam! I do temp work too (I have an assignment starting up next Monday again), and there is something very freeing about knowing that your job has an end date - that you’re not stuck there for the rest of your life (or maybe that’s just me). If you are looking for a permanent job, temping is the way to go, too - people get to know you and your work and you get to know them, and you can make a better judgement on if it’s a good fit.
Congrats! I’ve been laid off twice. The first time was a fantastic opportunity. It took me about three years at the new company to work my way into the right position, and the next 7 were amazing. Then they downsized. New company took me about two years to get into the right role. It’s starting to look really promising again…if we don’t go out of business next year.
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