How would Alan or Donald Put It.......?

Mar 12, 2008 at 1:12 PM
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.......You're fired!

It's true - I had the novel experience of being put on a month's notice yesterday and effectively made redundant.

I won't bore you with the details, but the start-up I was working for has in effect become a "Stop!" as the parent company is unwilling to put any more than the $700,000 it's already invested into the business to keep it going.

It didn't really come as much of a shock, and the process wasn't quite as brutal as "The Apprentice", but it still wasn't pleasant.

Anyway, I've been busy this morning on PlanetRecruit and LinkedIn and have made contact with some agencies / friends / acquaintances / former-employers / former-colleagues and I've got a few things lined up, so it's not looking too bad.....It might even be a good thing in the long run.....?!?!?!

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The first thing I did when I was made redundant years ago, was go on holiday for a week with my disabled mother who I was looking after. Six months earlier the firm I was working for started a series of redundancies and I quickly put my name down at several employment agencies. Then immediately after I was made redundant, I was sent to an interview where I was offered the job that day. That was some years ago and maybe circumstances are different now, but I've always maintained an optimism. If you believe in the gloom-mongers that the future is bleak then everything appears dark. I get anxious at times but believe in the future. I'm sure that people hundreds of years ago thought that the world was about to end and certainly never expected things to improve for them personally. But isn't it rather arrogant to think that the future is so predictable?

How would Alan or Donald Put It.......?

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