Opening doors

Getting pulled aside at work is never a positive experience, particularly with my last employer, which was always pretty demoralizing. Monday....was interesting. On Monday I was pulled aside and told that my position was being abolished and I would now be a redeployee.


I've only been in this role a little over 6 months and quite liked it, however, just this morning (before I was told), I was looking on the net to see what else was out there in job-land. The bottom line is, I am not feeling challenged. Eventually, within the next 6 months, I could see myself moving on to something else.


SO, I am seeing this as a step, an open door of opportunity. I can imagine a swag of people are going to want to give me sympathy. Save it. There is a global financial crisis going on and people are having their jobs pulled out from under them without the security of the 'transit lounge' of redeployment that I have. It happened to a friend of mine, one week she got a promotion, the next week she was made redundant, no safety net and from the sounds of it, not a great deal of empathy. I'm happy to report that she has since landed another gig elsewhere and is very happy!

So while I get my own HR consultant who's mission in life will be to find me a job, I am being proactive and looking for something that I want, not something that someone simply has a requirement to fill. I am thinking only positive thoughts about this. The last 6 months has restored my faith in myself that I can do more than put stickers on boxes. Watch this space for the next exciting installment!