5/30/09

Remember when everyone else in your class got to go on a field trip to Disneyland? the zoo? and you were the only student that was left behind? It could have been for a good reason, a bad reason or no reason at all. It gives you an inferior feeling that you're just not good enough. This happens in business too. The company that I used to work for was planning on moving to really nice offices in a clean well manicured business park. One week before this occurred.I was the let go...I lost out on going to Disneyland. Now I'm in career limbo just waiting for the phone to ring. As our auto industry which was once the backbone of the manufacturing sector sheds 21,000 jobs in 14 factories, the Chinese are ramping up to be the leader in the automotive business and selling their "junk" to American consumers. That makes me sick! I wonder if there will ever be a "trickle down" effect for manufacturing professionals such as myself.

I watched the movie "Fired" this afternoon. They talked about the grieving process when we lose our jobs because that's what defines us....I'm a Senior Buyer..to I am in transition. Many of us were shocked when we first got let go, I know that I was. Perhaps there were obvious clues that I needed to look for work more seriously, but when we are employed, we focus on the process of maintaining our employment. We are in denial that we cannot get let go. Personally, I was even packing my belongings for the move to the new offices. Was I bamboozled!

Till next time... God Bless.

Bill Mokrzycki