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Lynne:
Hey there, Dobie,
I'm just catching up with this thread, and I'm sorry to hear about your layoff. I'm glad you felt comfortable sharing your story here, and definitely feel free to vent all you need. The job market these days really stinks in numerous ways in this economy, and to be in land management work - sounds like a recipe for disaster, to me.
Hang in there and do your best to be good to yourself and not get discouraged. I think it's an especially good idea in this climate to get in touch with your contacts from previous jobs and utilize those connections if at all possible.
In the past, I've always found my (software) jobs online. This past February, I sent out 5-10 resumes a day and made as many phone calls, but it was a mostly random phone call to a friend and former colleague (letting her know that she might be called for a reference) that led me back to my old job in Boston. You just never know.
Take care and keep us posted, Dobie,
Lynne
:-* :-* :-*
Dobie1018:
Thanks Lynne. I appreciate your thoughts. I actually sort of fell into the job at the land development office. I've been a legal assistant for 25 years at different offices, and the attorney I worked for at the job before the land development co. was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and he decided to sell the building he owned that we were in, split up the law firm, and basically retire. So he sold the the building in January, 2008 to the land develoment company, and the other attorneys in the firm went their separate ways, and I was facing unemployment. I figured that the land development company would need someone there to "man" the office, so I asked them if they would consider hiring me on, which they did, after they interviewed me. It worked out well because I could stay right where I was in the same spot in the building, and I felt like I was an asset to the company, being that I was famililar with the building itself, and all the different companies servicing the building such as lawn care, pest control, electricity, water, telephone, cable service, etc. that the building already utiized that we had to have changed into the new building owner's name. Anyway, for the last 14 months it worked out well, but the real estate/land development field is not exactly doing real well these days, hence my unexpected layoff. So, I'm still searching. . . .
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 19, 2009, 08:52:52 pm ---That bothers me sometimes too. I was out to lunch with a friend the other day and he complained that his raise was only 5%. I definitely had to bite my tongue then.
--- End quote ---
Oi, how insensitive can you get! :o ???
I wouldn't be having lunch with him again any time soon. ... >:( :-\ 8)
Front-Ranger:
Oh, well, I think I finally said, "Care to trade places with me?" and that put it all in perspective!
Dobie1018:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 21, 2009, 05:17:34 pm ---Oh, well, I think I finally said, "Care to trade places with me?" and that put it all in perspective!
--- End quote ---
Great answer! I bet he didn't know what to say to that!
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