One year ago, I started at the New Employer.
Working for one company for 30 years, being laid off, finding a new job after nine months, being unemployed again six months later, and going for almost two more years without a job … was not a good experience for me. It had an impact that, even a year later, I’m only beginning to understand. I mean, it gave me an opportunity to do some good things (helping my mom move out to Colorado, doing stuff to help the kid during senior year, etc.), but the weight of Not Working … was a heavy one for me.
But … hey, a year on the new job is a good thing to flush those mental toxins, something to celebrate, and goes a long way to make up for the above. The job has been a good one — not unalloyed, but with plenty of potential for the future, and using (intermittently) the talents I wanted to bring to gainful employment.
The salary coming in has been pretty nice. But working in general — even “losing” that eight hours a day — has been even better.
Onward and upward!