It’s funny when I stop to think about our collective circumstance. If you’ve yet to feel the pinch of the economic contraction happening on a global scale, all I can offer is “be prepared”. My old scout motto finds me well worn. I lost my job today.
I’ve written before about the economy and it’s over reaching contraction. Some of my friends commented about my negative stance and I can’t help but feel a bit vindicated today. Even if it is inherently wrong of me. This is an eerie feeling I dare not wish upon you. It will subside eventually, the uncertainly and surprise of it all.
I just returned from my vacation and prepared breakfast in an attempt to get back into the swing of things. I can’t say the writing wasn’t on the wall, as our morning chatter invoked a “what if” mentality. Across the country, the upper crust has utterly mis-managed the last 30 years. My employer of just over two years unfortunately cant be excluded. The race for growth during my tenure there has left a bad taste in my mouth. As the phone calls keep pouring in offering solace and support, I find that I cannot be counted as a victim in this mess. I foreshadowed the first and second round of layoffs months before senior management could possibly come to grips with what was happening. I even went so far as to send an article to the CFO on how to minimize the damage to the stability of the workforce once the realization hits, that not only are their friends no longer around, they have to work even harder to keep up. This would suggest I was in fact prepared for the failures of grey-haired nitwits in charge.
I’m comforted by the knowledge that I can pick myself up off the ground, as I have many times past. For those of you that know my background, I’ve always come from unsuspecting places to race past the commonly held mentality that what go’s up must come down. There is no up or down! There is out, in and around.
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