a fresh start

A couple of years ago I was let go, due to cutbacks, from a job that I had held for 16 years. It wasn't a shock at all, it was in fact, expected.

Still nobody likes to be fired, even with a big settlement.

Having settlement in hand, I took advantage of the paid time off and returned to school to change my career path. In school I was very successful, graduating at the top of my class.

When school finished and just as my settlement was running out, I landed a job in my new career path. The company wasn't all I wanted, the pay certainly less then I'd like but I needed a foot in the door job, an experience job. So I took it.

Then the economy went south and so did my job. In Canada, we've not been hit as hard as some areas of the US but we're not immune to it either. Especially when the client base of my former company was largely US based.

I was hired as an Education Specialist and lots of promises were made about the projects I'd be working on and the leeway that I would have to shape the training material. None of that materialized.

I know find myself unemployed in a very tough job market, without that large settlement to fall back on this time. I face each day now as a chance to make a fresh start, to find that job that is the right fit and not just an experience job.

Here's to a fresh start.