So, I took a couple of months to kind of get through retrenchment news. It was sad to be in the situation and given vintage, age, rank, and salary. The next mission or job hunt is going to be much more difficult to achieve. Even after going through these two months of the “sad” phase, the actual fact was that I knew it was bound to happen four month prior and with 6 months worth of time to job hunt. The market was extremely soft. It is such a life struggle sometimes. Jobs, new decisions, some people can choose to retire from 28, 40, 45, 55, 65. It was never really the case for me. As much as I wanted to, I didn’t want to retire at all. Don’t get me wrong, I can take on less but retirement was never really an option for me because I can’t sit around and do nothing all day long.

Don’t get me wrong, being out of job is always an emotional roller coaster. Although once you got used to it, you know where that will take and it will take a while before you look towards the next thing.

I can’t say that it wasn’t tough. I kind of knew that it was coming but I guess I have become more expensive, much easier to replace and retired from employers perspective. One other thing I got to know was that there are some hirers who prefers to hire employees who are still employed. From what I see 7 in 10 employees that were let go of were not non-performing ones. Instead, some of those who were spared were kind of the ones dragging the company down. During my job search process recently, I also realised that there are hirers who only want to hire those who are out of job and take advantage of those who are. Simple Marvellous. You know who you are. Total of no respect for those who choose budget over people.

I’m not one who curses but just be careful what you do because everyone watches what you do and how you do it. May lady luck be blessing you always.

Enough said. Time to move on.