Gettin' back on the horse
Aug. 27th, 2004 04:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saavedra77Thanks to uniquecrash5, hippybngstockng, & sleepwhenimdead for encouraging me to take advantage of my recent job loss to explore new possibilities--specifically political ones. I have done some exploring in that area & others, but with my severance package halfway exhausted, I’ve decided to accept a recent job offer from another health-care research company.
Comparing my dwindling resources to what they're offering me, I'd have to be kind of crazy not to:
The new job isn't radically different from what I did at my last company: I’ll be doing lit & Web searches, collaborating on proposals and reports, and coordinating and monitoring research sites. But it will involve more writing, occasional travel, & a raise--plus I finally get my own office! (I am Dilbert no more!)
They don't want me to start till mid-September, which actually overlaps pretty neatly with the end of my severance. & since my job search is effectively over, this means that I'm effectively on vacation for the next 3 weeks.
One particularly surreal aspect of this job change: My new company has offices on the same floor of the same building as my old one. In fact, there’s no real partition between them: they share a kitchen & other common spaces.
So, three weeks after my former employer laid me off, I find out that I'm essentially going back there on someone else's payroll with a raise & my own office.
Ain't life a kick?
Comparing my dwindling resources to what they're offering me, I'd have to be kind of crazy not to:
The new job isn't radically different from what I did at my last company: I’ll be doing lit & Web searches, collaborating on proposals and reports, and coordinating and monitoring research sites. But it will involve more writing, occasional travel, & a raise--plus I finally get my own office! (I am Dilbert no more!)
They don't want me to start till mid-September, which actually overlaps pretty neatly with the end of my severance. & since my job search is effectively over, this means that I'm effectively on vacation for the next 3 weeks.
One particularly surreal aspect of this job change: My new company has offices on the same floor of the same building as my old one. In fact, there’s no real partition between them: they share a kitchen & other common spaces.
So, three weeks after my former employer laid me off, I find out that I'm essentially going back there on someone else's payroll with a raise & my own office.
Ain't life a kick?
