adolf said...
Mine was good, I got through it. For the past 18 years I've worked 2 jobs during summer, so it's always a challenging time for me, but at the same time it's a great earner. I now measure my progress in life at the end of summer. Unfortunately, I started smoking again, but gave up just recently again. I think this time I'll be off for good; I've worked out a better plan for myself and am confident. Not smoking last year resulted in me stacking on almost 10kg in weight, I became extremely moody and agitated, but this time I think I have a much better plan.
At the start of the year I made a resolution to have the whole of Autumn off - to camp, surf, go fishing, bushwalking and stay in cheap motels in Victoria. I gave a months notice that I was quiting my job at start of Feb and all was rosy for a couple of weeks. Then my boss asked me if I could stay on for a few weeks longer. I said sure, as long as I employed as a contractor on current market rates.
One thing led to another and as it turned out, I got a nice pay increase and decided to continue on. I did still managed to get my fishing/camping 'man' trip in at Steep Point WA, which I'm extremely excited about.
Shucks - I can't begin to talk about how good it felt to be wanted in my job. Maybe next year I'll do the whole of Autumn break thing that I've been dreaming of.
Thankfully, now that I'm working again, Autumn here has got off to a bad start, lots of rain and wind. So I feel quite content about what's happened in my life this Summer.
Yeah - it's been a good Summer.
You sort of make me think of those big boss salaries, and big bonuses, and big company profits, by screwing every staff member out of a few dollars here and there, and the promise of long employment... As you discovered, it's quite common for an individual to be both "replaceable", but at the same time "quite a bit better than the other options".... It sort of results in weekly bonuses.
Well done Adolf. I did what you did, but about 4 years ago. I rank it as one of the best decisions of my life.
Along those lines, my sister in law says, "no decision is a decision". For example, if you can't make up your mind whether to leave a job, and don't decide to do something about your situation, then your non decision was actually to stay put...