I saw a former co-worker at the liquor store, where else?
I was wearing a cute little summer dress, popping in for some wine for a dinner party. He was buying some Makers Mark. I've lost some weight since I joined 24 Hour Fitness, I've gotten more sleep, I am so much HAPPIER. I was glad he saw me like that.
He asked me what I was doing, I said I was scaling up Senor Dog's business and we were getting more employees (sort of true). I could practically feel the jealousy.
He said things were even more tense, even worse morale, which is hard to even imagine. He looked so tired and beaten up. I wonder if he always looked like that?
I didn't even really want to talk to him. I feel like that part of my life is over, that I will never work for screaming jerks again, that I'll never slave 90 hours for people I can't even have a civil conversation with again. Whew, I'm glad I'm not there anymore.
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5 comments:
What a relief.
I can attest to what you're feeling. When I quit, it felt like I was falling off a cliff.
"WHAT DID I DO?"
But after a while, I relaxed and now I feel much happier, I look less stressed, am unburdened and am enjoying life a lot more :)
People who envy that, only need to look at their own situation to figure out what they need to do..
Having been through it myself, and watched my husband and friends go through it, I know that losing a job (especially a well paying job) is absolutely terrible. But after some time has passed and one gains perspective and new opportunites, one also learns the job loss could have been the best thing that ever happened.
I know that I don't often agree with your posts and opinions (perhaps its the 30-year age difference between us. LOL), but I do wish you all the best in whatever paths life takes you.
Congratulations dog, on learning more about the value of a dollar.
That had to have felt GOOD.
I had a bad job once, where I found myself rationalizing the badness. I wanted to keep the power/prestige/money so bad, I refused to recognize the negative parts -- that I worked with people who were professionally and financially successful, but who were also not nice. I thought that working there was "the real world".
Ha! Now I have a dream job, dream house (almost done), dream guy, dream everything -- and I got it much more quickly than scheming and schmoozing in "the real world" would've gotten me.
I ran into the boss that unjustifiably fired me 20 minutes before leaving on a business trip that wouldn't have him back until long after I'd left. What a coward. Anyway, 2 years had passed and I was a year into this self-employed massage gig and held no grudge. Quite the opposite - collecting unemployment for 9 months gave me a lot of perspective and the resources to take a chance.
Wow you lied to someone ("added employees (almost)") who already looked bad just to make them feel even worse and yourself feel superior. That's awful!
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