Quote:
Originally Posted by White Out 403
I can relate. I'm 43 and looking for work again after taking a package from my previous employer. Because it was voluntary, I have the double poison of being off work a month now and also it being voluntary and allowing doubt to creep in my mind. The move to Cape Breton was right for our family in the long run and being close to family is important. I also know that the future at my old company was becoming difficult to see past 5 years. TELUS is busily off shoring work to every developing country in the world, and pocketing the savings to its share holders and lavishing the executives with massive bonuses. It's gross. There's a reason people were taking the package by the thousands, but, still, it was voluntary.
I have a really dark part of my mind that if I cant find work in a reasonable amount of time that I don't know what to do or what I'll do. It's a constant unease in my mind. Men aren't allowed to be unproductive. My value is based, in my mind, around providing for my family.
I'm glad my benefits with the old company end in February. Look, this is going to sound dark and ####ed up but just let me write it without being judged. If my life insurance was still good until May or June, and I was off work for 6 months at that point, I could see myself contemplating faking an accident on the highway to make sure my kids got a good life insurance pay out.
So yeah things are solid 2 for me right now.
|
I grew up poor as #### with a loving mum who could never put much food on the table, not only would I not swap it for the world but it actually set me up in a better place to thrive as an adult, I constantly make better choices because of the poverty I grew up in as a child than my friends that grew up in the comparative luxury of Canada, you, like me, do the best you can for your kids but sometimes your best is to teach them how to cope with the ####ty end of lifes stick by your example