Thank God for unemployment insurance. And not the reason you think. The money only really covers the cost of our COBRA insurance each month. I say "thank God" because it makes me apply to at least two jobs a week. I think if I didn't have to file for unemployement benefits, I wouldn't even try to apply to jobs, er...I mean the big black hole of job openings from which an email is never returned. That's right, I have received ONE response to all the job openings in 18 months that I've applied to from postings on the web. And I've applied to more than two a week many weeks.
David
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Fired at Fifty
I was laid off my job two weeks after my fiftieth birthday. What had been a joyous time, I was healthy, I was fifty, I had a good home and I had a good job, turned my life upside down.
Let's go backward in time to get to this point.
I had a great job with AOL where I had been for eight years. I had been promoted several times, my salary had doubled since I had started and I only ever got glowing annual performance evaluations. My boss of many years, who I loved and who loved me, had left a few months prior to my being laid off. So I ended up reporting to her boss, a narcissistic, windbag. You know the type...he's never wrong, no one else's opinion matters and worst of all, no one else in the company can stand him. But I digress. I loved my job and the company. And I thought I was well thought of. Guess not.
Anyway, here I sit 18 months later without a job, nothing on the horizon and feeling down in the dumps. The one thing I never stopped doing was hitting the gym five to six times a week and staying healthy.
And that's what this blog is about, staying both mentally and physically healthy. I welcome input from people in the same boat and ideas from anyone. I want this to be a fun read for anyone. And so we begin.
David
Let's go backward in time to get to this point.
I had a great job with AOL where I had been for eight years. I had been promoted several times, my salary had doubled since I had started and I only ever got glowing annual performance evaluations. My boss of many years, who I loved and who loved me, had left a few months prior to my being laid off. So I ended up reporting to her boss, a narcissistic, windbag. You know the type...he's never wrong, no one else's opinion matters and worst of all, no one else in the company can stand him. But I digress. I loved my job and the company. And I thought I was well thought of. Guess not.
Anyway, here I sit 18 months later without a job, nothing on the horizon and feeling down in the dumps. The one thing I never stopped doing was hitting the gym five to six times a week and staying healthy.
And that's what this blog is about, staying both mentally and physically healthy. I welcome input from people in the same boat and ideas from anyone. I want this to be a fun read for anyone. And so we begin.
David
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