Cindy, I hope all went well with your son's surgery.
Gud, please, please get into therapy. Your wife is abusive and you need help seeing it and dealing with it. You are a worthwhile and good person.
I've entered the Depression stage of the Five Stages of Grieving. Denial was last weekend, Anger was yesterday, and for efficiency I'm skipping Bargaining. I have no skills that anyone wants to pay for, and no one is offering pay for anything that I want to do. If I had the opportunity to do whatever I wanted, I don't even know what I'd do. Six years until I can take early retirement, which I wasn't planning to do, but hey, things change.
I figure that if I get laid off I'll hunt down some local insurance companies that use our program and see if they'd like a consultant. Did your job involve contact with anyone outside your company that might be interested?
I have no skills that anyone wants to pay for
Zen, tell me to delete if this is too detailed, but you were a journal editor, right? Talk to Steph about remote editing work. I know she's in medical editing, which is somewhat different, but still.
Zenkitty did message me on FB last night.
Sorry for pointing out the obvious, then. I just really don't think you're unemployable, and I want you to get a fabulous new job and rub it in the faces of your former employers.
Sorry for pointing out the obvious, then.
No, it was a good idea! I was just kind of scarce yesterday and today.
you were a journal editor, right?
I was. I have mad skillz. Steph gave me some leads, thank you Steph!, and another friend of mine is talking to me right now about doing some freelance work. I'll be okay, I'm sure, I'm just...still trying not to panic.
I just really don't think you're unemployable, and I want you to get a fabulous new job and rub it in the faces of your former employers.
I also want this! My sister reminded me how stressed out the job made me; she thinks I'm better off finding something else anyway.
I think you have a really good chance of landing somewhere you are happier, for sure. You do have mad skillz!
Zen I hope this leads to something really good for you.
