In truth, I really didn't like my job. I had outgrown it. The people I worked for had no idea how to foster talent, how to motivate their employees or even how to be professional. I can say this freely and without any feelings of disloyalty because I got laid off last week ... and now I don't work there anymore! But then again ...
I have no job and no steady income. Granted, I had been looking around on the sidelines, but now my job hunt is in full throttle. It's like that episode of Friends when Rachel wanted to quit working at the coffee shop and get a more professional job, and Joey told her she needed "the fear" to motivate her to get out there and find what she wanted. Well, now I have "the fear."
That's because I also have "the mortgage, the bills, the college savings accounts, the children and the stay-at-home husband." It all adds up. In fact, it's plenty of fear. More than I need, to be sure, but it motivates me to keep looking.
On the other hand (because there always is one!), I'm relieved to be away from my old job and its heavy corporate politics. The job started out wonderfully almost four years ago when I accepted it, but slowly morphed into something I didn't particularly like.
Nowadays, my brain feels less stressed. I'm sleeping better and feel lighter. It's hard spending eight hours a day with people you don't care for, in a company where the CEO's primary concern is whether the bottom line is pulling enough weight for him to continue to employ his personal home chef.
But all of that is under the bridge now ... It's onward and upward from here.
Anybody looking for a marketing copywriter?
Jamie Hayden is the working mom behind www.ParenTeam.com, a resource for working wives of stay-at-home dads (SAHDs).
I am currently working as an IT Coordinator for a medium sized company. I like my job and my immediate boss is great. However, the CEO isn't doing such a bang up job with the company as a whole, because he is too worried about his dating life right now. I've heard some pretty unsettling things around the office lately. I have a SAHD too and I am really starting to get nervous.
I am going to try to find something different before I get laid off.
Why can't I find a job surfing the internet, blogging and twittering? Life is just not fair!
Best of luck to you, I hope you find something wonderful!
