7 months later, a new year and some rather upsetting news about halfway thru December last year. The radio station I work at (for 19 years I might add) has been sold and effective March 29th I will be unemployed. I have VERY mixed feelings about it all to be honest. Part of me is glad, I won’t miss the before crack of dawn getting up and driving in nasty weather to get here. The other part of me is rather sad, I have been here for 19 years, the longest job I have ever had, thought I would be here until I “officially” retired. The uncertainty of what I will do next for about 10 years its a bit unsettling to me. Along with being here for 19 years, it’s been 19 years since I have job hunted, I am a bit rusty. This job is cushy and I shall greatly miss it.
Onto bigger and better things, I shall not dwell too much on this change but shall focus on the future, I think I shall enjoy some downtime for a month or so, depending on how finances go with unemployment. My bigger question is what do I want to do next? The thought of going back to working in retail isn’t exactly appealing to me but neither is working in fast food or anything of the sort. A receptionsit job might be nice, I am good at that. Or something working from home online might be a perfect fit too. Time will tell.
We do have some travel plans later this year in August for my neices wedding in Wisconsin. Hopefully everthing will work out for us to go. She has no other family from her dad’s side but me. Time will tell if we go or not, solely depending on finances at this point. I haven’t made any reservations yet but I feel I have plenty of time.