to vote for favorites. Only 6 votes needed to get on the list.I was fired on Friday. People react strangely when you tell them you have been fired. You are spoken to in hushed tones generally reserved for hospitals and churches, or for those you suspect of mental instability. It is therefore important when relaying the news to follow up immediately with: It is OK, it is a good thing and I am not upset.
The reason is simple. I hated my job. I was not challenged. There was no room for any kind of career growth for me. I felt interest and support for my entire group had vanished. In short, I was bored and found it a daily struggle to get out of bed to go to work. Despite these things I found it impossible to quit.
What prevented me from quitting my job is also simple. It was money. I was a small shareholder in the company. It was sold to a larger firm a year ago. The shareholders received a portion of the purchase price on the day of the sale, and the remainder was split up into three yearly payments. If you quit you forfeit your future payments. Deals of this nature are commonly structured this way. I had two payments still due to me. Each payment added about 50% to my salary. Not money you can retire on, but not money you can easily walk away from either.
Being terminated without cause removes the remainder of my two year obligation without deleting the upcoming payments. I quickly moved past the shock of actually being fired and onto the realization that it is the best possible solution. I still have some paperwork I need to secure in order to remove any possibility of being cheated out of the payments, but once that stress has been eliminated I am free. I feel as though a weight has been lifted and I am excited about what is next.
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Well good for you. Better things are in your future. Things always happen how they are supposed to.
I look forward to hearing about whatever challenge you take on and I’m glad you still get your payouts.
Maybe what you wanted was just a little bit more free time to spend on your own hobbies/projects/life/family.
Maybe you should look for a part-time job instead of full-time. I think you will start seeing your job as a place where you can be social and show your power with helping others. You may even start enjoying your work life.
By the way, there is a political party in Canada, named “work less”. May be you should vote them
Or you can start fighting poverty and homelessness, so that people will not work for food anymore. At the very basic, it all starts with cheap human power. If everybody could already survive -if they had food and home and social security and health insurance- then they would ask for more while choosing their jobs. Then they would work for the job they like, thus everybody could be more productive.
But there would be people who would like to benefit from this governing style. That’s why it may not work well. And the people who are paying a lot of taxes -in order to feed the poor- may rebel. Anyway these are complicated political issues and I am not a politician
Have you seen ‘Yes man’?
Maybe you should start saying ‘Yes’
Good luck!
One more thing:
, they would read your blog to see how you are doing everyday)
If I was fired, and took 6 months off like you, I would post my every rocking day!!!
(People like soap opera stuff
I have to feel you need to woodwork again. You are really good. Would that be a dream job?
I am wary of making a hobby a living. I talked to a graffiti artist that did elaborate murals. He turned it into a successful business, but he talked longingly about the good old days when he didn’t compromise on his art, and did it for the joy of it.
Construction in general I am very interested in. I’d really like to build ultra modern, high efficiency, self sufficient homes. I’m looking into it.