{"id":251,"date":"2007-01-31T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-01-31T17:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:32:58","slug":"laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/laid-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was notified today that I’ll be laid off on March 2nd, 2007. After 7 years of working in the same job, that’s a little scary. I have severance, COBRA, can collect unemployment and all of that, so it could be much worse. But it still feels unlike any “end” I’ve ever experienced. <\/p>\n

With school you have an expectation of it ending at a certain time. Even when Grandma died, I prepared myself for it. But with this, even though the job was always tenuous, it began to feel like I was on the battlefield and even though there were bullets flying everywhere, we wouldn’t get hit, we were safe. Well, we are not safe. But maybe that’s OK. I mean, that’s definitely not what I want on my tombstone…<\/p>\n


\nHere Lies Ed Kraay
\nHe went to school, then worked for Metro One, then he died.
\nHe led a real safe life.
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\nNo gut’s no glory right? I definitely don’t want to end up like the guys in this cartoon:<\/p>\n

No Life<\/a><\/p>\n

With that in mind, maybe it is good I am forced out of the next, to do something else, something great. I could go back to school, start my own company, or even just get a job as a PM at a growing company. If nothing else, perhaps I’ll get a pay raise.<\/p>\n

So, I’m cobbling together the first resume I’ve filled out in years, and trying to cram 7 years of job experience into one pithy page. If anyone knows of an opening for a program or project manager, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was notified today that I’ll be laid off on March 2nd, 2007. After 7 years of working in the same job, that’s a little scary. I have severance, COBRA, can collect unemployment and all of that, so it could be much worse. But it still feels unlike any “end” I’ve ever experienced. With school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}