We received great news! Liam is a student in his second year and we found out (Thank you LEA!) that they messed up his grants! To make a very long story short, we received a lot of money and as I posted before, I got a brand new shiny PC now! I also got accepted unofficially by the course leader to do Psychology online which I am so thrilled about and I cannot wait to start. I am just hoping there will be grants available to pay for it as I do not have a spare penny to pump into it. I am sure there is something we can do about that, if not, it will have to be put on hold for now.
The bad news... All personnel in our office was called to the board room. Sat here was our financial director who was running our department in Derby. She had a worried face and we all froze thinking 'this cannot be good'. And it wasn't. The company I work for has several divisions and she notified us that they were going to centralize, meaning that our office most likely is to be closed in June next year.
The good news about this is that I have around 9 months to find a new job, the sooner the better because I really do not want to stick around. I was feeling really bad for the people that worked there over 5 years, most people started crying after it sunk in. We have a lovely lady in our department (sitting opposite of me) and she worked here for nearly seven years. She just turned 60 and is close to retirement. Nobody is willing to take on somebody that old who only needs 1 or 2 more years before she can retire. I felt really bad for them, personally I did not really care. I've been thinking a lot recently about changing jobs, I just did not want to do it just yet, but that all changed now.
I do not mind looking for a new job, I got all the time I need, no hurries and well, even though I am going to miss quite a few people and the relaxed office atmosphere I know there is something much better out there and I intent to find it! I might even try to get a job with Derby university administration team, which would be so awesome! With time comes the right job, I'm not worried, it is not really bad news, it's just sad news.
Update - a year or more later
9 years ago
1 comments:
Hey there!
sorry to hear about your job - but you are right you do have time to look for something else. And maybe with this happening at the same time as your university planning it's a sign of big changes for you? (not that moving to England isn't already a huge change!)
Good luck and stick in there x