Hawk now Unemployed
Apr. 6th, 2024 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerHawk (my spouse) is now officially unemployed. I could have posted this yesterday, as yesterday was her last day of work and her boss told her she could leave at lunchtime. She was home around 1:30pm.
No, this didn't happen suddenly. Hawk learned two months ago that her company was eliminating her position. They offered her a new, lower role. It took her all of 1.5 seconds to think before responding, "Thank you, but I am declining your offer." Cue surprised Pikachu faces. 😂 They came back in a few days with a retention offer to keep her on an extra 5 weeks. Thus her last day was delayed from March 1 to April 5.
What's next? Well, first, this isn't retirement. We're not there yet. We're close!— but not there. So Hawk is already looking for a new job. Unfortunately the job market seems to have cooled a lot from a year ago.
While we don't have enough money to call ourselves done with working for a living, we do have enough not to sweat time in between jobs. Thus Hawk's unemployment is also a bit of funemployment. We planned our trip to New Zealand only after finding out about her job evaporating. And yes, we planned it so that we'd leave pretty much right after her last day. Her last day was yesterday, and today we're packing our bags because we leave tonight!
No, this didn't happen suddenly. Hawk learned two months ago that her company was eliminating her position. They offered her a new, lower role. It took her all of 1.5 seconds to think before responding, "Thank you, but I am declining your offer." Cue surprised Pikachu faces. 😂 They came back in a few days with a retention offer to keep her on an extra 5 weeks. Thus her last day was delayed from March 1 to April 5.
What's next? Well, first, this isn't retirement. We're not there yet. We're close!— but not there. So Hawk is already looking for a new job. Unfortunately the job market seems to have cooled a lot from a year ago.
While we don't have enough money to call ourselves done with working for a living, we do have enough not to sweat time in between jobs. Thus Hawk's unemployment is also a bit of funemployment. We planned our trip to New Zealand only after finding out about her job evaporating. And yes, we planned it so that we'd leave pretty much right after her last day. Her last day was yesterday, and today we're packing our bags because we leave tonight!
