This time I'm getting it right...
Well, I got the call. My company in the UK is closing down their US division (namely, me and my colleague, and our various rep groups) and at some point in the next few months I'll get a check that will be my last.
OH MY GOD WHAT AM I GOING TO DO OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.
I'm fine.
I am intent on seeing this as an opportunity: name it, do it. Etc. Alas, I have struggled for years to name it--the thing that I want to spend the second half of my work life doing--and I come up sort of empty. If I could start it all over, I'd train to be a counselor. Or a teacher. But now? How'm I going to swing it--me and two kids?
Need to think. Decisions, decisions.
posted by I n g e r @ Wednesday, August 03, 2005
6 Comments:
Breathe Inger, breathe! Sit down and make a wild list of all the things you love doing the most (even if they aren't work related). Maybe you can come up with some careers for you that involve the stuff you love. Here's a few article links too:
http://www.inspiration2go.com/articles/work-2.php
http://www.jobseekersadvice.com/career_advice/articles/how_to_answer_your_call_in_mid_life.htm
And Inger...as one going through this transition myself....just let yourself go. Allow the doors to open and walk through them.
Hard in the moment, but the light will shine through.
STB
Thank you, lovely people. Calmer tonight. Thinking about open doors...
Inger-
What is it that you do?
Around every corner in life, there is opportunity. The old saying, that when the door shuts closed, the window blows wide open.
Your window is open Baby!
Been there - with only one child to support...it's scary stuff. On one hand it feels like an opportunity to change paths, on the other hand, there is a time sensitivity that cannot be ignored. I worked as a baker's assistant (midnights) for 2 months in order to pay the bills - it was hard - but I think I finally got hired by someone who was enticed by the fact I smelled like a cinnamon bun! I am sure the right thing will happen. Getting there, however is often a circuitous path.
Hang in there.
Oh Inger! I know well how this feels.. we have gone thruogh it here.. in a different way. Dan worked in the steel industry, the sugar industry then for the airlines..
almost funny how he chose the next industry to go down ..
not the same, I know.. you are the sole everything for your family.. but I absolutely know that you will be very catlike and land on your feet.. in a better place than you were before.
I wish I had workds to fix your fears, but I know that I don't. We will see what happens next and remember the magic.. perhaps this is part of the magic for you? Like the magic that brought you first that beautiful girl.. sometimes we have to walk through mud (marriage) to get to the garden (children) . .. and then that sweet boy that make your family .
I know it is scary.. but I hope it is freeing, too.. hang in there.. and if you want to talk about it.. we can.. my email is @verizon.net .. and it is my user name here.. so..
sometimes talking makes it better.. sometiems worse.. only you know..
I came here to wish you a good morning.. and so I will .. but I will also add, a calm morning, and a happy one.. and I also wish you a beginning of a time filled with opportunities and adventures.. all good and sparkling and freeing..
hang in there.. and, if you need a hug there is one here waiting for you..
((((((((((((((Inger))))))))))))))
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