I Think I Just Unemployed Myself

"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked) 03/20/2020 at 19:09 • Filed to: None

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So, today was my last day of work as a manager in an essential industry, and next Monday I start up work at a company in a non-essential industry. 16 months ago, I accepted an offer to move t o a better, higher paying role in the banking industry, and the past year has been a disaster. I’m clearly not cut out for the role, and 2 weeks ago, I accepted an offer to return to my old company, where I worked for about 3 years, in basically the same job I had before, and where I was quite successful.

As of now, I’m supposed to meet my boss in a hotel parking lot on Monday morning to pick up my company car. My laptop is being shipped to my house someday next week, and the plan is to spend the first two weeks (which would have been retraining/reorientation anyway) training remotely and getting paperwork done. So, I’m probably safe for at least one pay cycle, but, after that, its a big unknown. The company can’t afford to pay a sales force to sit around and do nothing indefinitely. Even though most of our customers are still open for business, they aren’t going to want us coming around making sales calls, and we are not an essential product.

My boss even offered me an out today, asking if I had reconsidered or would be interested in a transfer to a smaller/less busy office, but I told him I was so terrible at this role that if I didn’t leave now, he’d just have to fire me eventually.

Two weeks ago, I was conv inced this was an extremely smart and fortunate decision, but a lot has changed since then.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 19:30

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things will get better, just wait

you’ll be fine

TorqueToYield > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 19:34

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“Two weeks ago”

Two weeks ago was a different world.  

ranwhenparked > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/20/2020 at 19:38

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If everything stays closed for 18 months, the best case scenario is the government maybe gives me 60% pay for a little while. It can take a year or more to find a job in a good economy. Now? I can’t  join the military because of a skeletal deformity, and failed the police test many times, probably due to complications from the same deformity. Can’t go back to school to become a doctor, not sure what other jobs will still exist in our new society. 

ranwhenparked > TorqueToYield 03/20/2020 at 19:39

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Yep, and two weeks from now will make right now look like a paradise. 

sony1492 > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 19:54

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Minimum wage jobs primarily 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 19:55

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This scenario is so insane that I think a lot of us are second-guessing major life decisions they’ve made over the past few years.

ranwhenparked > sony1492 03/20/2020 at 19:57

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Yep, might be able to get 3-4 of them, there’s 24 hours in day, some places are staffed 24 hours . When the bank takes the house, I can just sleep in the parking lot at work between shifts .

Or pull my car into the garage and end it in May or June and just skip all that crap, which is looking like the most reasonable option. 

EngineerWithTools > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 20:05

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First, most importantly, I hope things work out ok. I think we’re in for a real ride here, and no one knows what the world will look like when things settle.

I understand your feeling with work, though. I was promoted pretty quickly after joining my employer a few years ago. What my then-boss wanted in my new role wasn’t what the division needed, and holy crap did that suck. He was a great guy, but I’m happy he left. A reorganization returned me to the role I was hired for, with a slightly different title. Until the reorg, I was trying to do what you are doing - getting out to get back to something I’m good at.

Anyway,  stay safe out there!

sony1492 > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 20:07

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Yo u can find a way if your really want it. Pe rhaps with drastic life changes but life none the less.

Q uality of life isnt just about owning things you cant afford, it's possible to be poor and happy

ranwhenparked > sony1492 03/20/2020 at 20:10

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No it isn’t, I’ ve been there, can’t go back. Won’t.

shop-teacher > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 20:12

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Yipes!

Good luck to you! I honestly have no advice, but wish you the best.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > ranwhenparked 03/20/2020 at 20:14

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Goddamn