Gettin' back on the horse

[saavedra77]

Thanks 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?

Comments

[hippybngstockng.livejournal.com]

That is such the way I remember things working out in Seattle before. Often I would end one job just to get another 3 weeks later 2 buildings down... ;)

Since the election shit will be over in November, it makes perfect sense to me. Sure, Kerry could benefit from you, but this late in the game it's only going to benefit HIM not you, and in my book you're still more important :)

So maybe use those 3 weeks to tour the Great White North!!! How 'bout it! *poke poke*

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll probably still be working for Kerry, during the next few weeks--it's just that I'm not counting on them to pay me!

& I would love to come up to see you guys, sometime--but I'll need to recharge my travel fund, first. My new company is international & my duties include travel, so maybe I'll have the chance to come up that way on their tab @ some point, too ... :-)