Black Tuesday
(Cross-posted at Blogcritics.)
Today is Black Tuesday for me.
Jimm Lasser at Speak Up wrote most eloquently about what it is like to lose your job, so I won’t even try at this moment to match his grace; let’s just leave it at the point where I’m still deciding what to do for the next couple of days.
And how to break the news to my bride.
She’ll divorce me for sure.
This is not to say that everything was perfect at Optiem — it’s never perfect anywhere you go — but I did like my job. Sure, I had a personal issue take command of my time a little while back, and I found it difficult to concentrate, but I had made what I thought were significant strides in reclaiming my head space.
Evidently, not enough.
So it goes.
Anyway, I had fun, learned a ton, and met many truly neat people. I hope my next go-round is better.
So, I’m back on the market again, this time with more experience and a better picture of what the web world has in store. I’ll update my résumé, start gathering company information, start talking more deeply with my network, and get started on getting a new job; just because I’m out at one place doesn’t mean that my taste for the work is dulled.
So if you know a company in the Northeast Ohio area that needs a Standards-based web developer with the best CSS skills, damned good Photoshop skills, PHP, MySQL, several panoramic photography packages on both Windows and Macintosh, excellent writing skills, MS Office, public speaking, and more, please let me know — and let them know I’m available.
In the meantime, Merry Christmas.
