Thursday, February 01, 2007
Que Sera, Sera
Well it happened. My Wife was advised on January 31st that her job was being eliminated and her services will no longer be needed at the company that she is working for. She will get a reasonable severance package if she does not find another job within the company before March 2nd.
This really stinks since I was let go from the same company last year. We had just gotten our budget in tune with my decrease in salary, since I decided to drive a truck instead of waiting for an IT job to come along. I could not sit around and wait, drawing unemployment which would run out eventually anyway. I have to be working. I cannot sit still.
I did enjoy the break in employment though, it was a little breather. If my wife has to take a break in employment, I hope that she takes time to enjoy it, because she, like me, has worked her entire life. We have always had to earn the money to buy the things we needed to survive. For us, it is difficult to accept the fact that we have to take "time out".
The face of the nation is changing however, and keeping jobs into retirement is going to sound like a myth by the time our children grow up and have to take jobs they don't like in order to survive. Corporations no longer are trying to keep employees around for quality, they are hiring/outsourcing jobs to foreign countries in order to save money and earn their profits.
The whole danger in this whole situation is though, the middle class will be eliminated in America and you will only have the upper and lower class. Then all of the commericals will have to lean towards the upper class, hoping they will buy the products coming off the production lines in China, Singapore, India, or where ever they happen to come from, because there will be no middle class to buy their products.
In all of this, as an ending to a gloomy outlook for America, I have to say that for every door that closes, another one opens. What ever will be, will be, and we just have to make the best of it.
My wife and I are saddened by our recent layoffs and wonder how we will make it through all of this, but I have faith that God will show us the way, and that we will be taken care of.
I am an American Veteran who put his life on the line to keep the freedoms in this country alive and well. I answered JFK's statement and question, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
God Bless
This really stinks since I was let go from the same company last year. We had just gotten our budget in tune with my decrease in salary, since I decided to drive a truck instead of waiting for an IT job to come along. I could not sit around and wait, drawing unemployment which would run out eventually anyway. I have to be working. I cannot sit still.
I did enjoy the break in employment though, it was a little breather. If my wife has to take a break in employment, I hope that she takes time to enjoy it, because she, like me, has worked her entire life. We have always had to earn the money to buy the things we needed to survive. For us, it is difficult to accept the fact that we have to take "time out".
The face of the nation is changing however, and keeping jobs into retirement is going to sound like a myth by the time our children grow up and have to take jobs they don't like in order to survive. Corporations no longer are trying to keep employees around for quality, they are hiring/outsourcing jobs to foreign countries in order to save money and earn their profits.
The whole danger in this whole situation is though, the middle class will be eliminated in America and you will only have the upper and lower class. Then all of the commericals will have to lean towards the upper class, hoping they will buy the products coming off the production lines in China, Singapore, India, or where ever they happen to come from, because there will be no middle class to buy their products.
In all of this, as an ending to a gloomy outlook for America, I have to say that for every door that closes, another one opens. What ever will be, will be, and we just have to make the best of it.
My wife and I are saddened by our recent layoffs and wonder how we will make it through all of this, but I have faith that God will show us the way, and that we will be taken care of.
I am an American Veteran who put his life on the line to keep the freedoms in this country alive and well. I answered JFK's statement and question, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
God Bless
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