As redundancy continues its path for me, I have experienced one of the strangest stages.
Leaving work.
Although technically I am still employed until the 6th of April, I left work on Tuesday to start my gardening leave. How would I describe that day....
It's official. I am now at risk of being made redundant. We have all been given our letters this morning.
They were efficient at answering (for a given value of answered) our quiestions and concultation has ended early.
It's no longer as scary a thought as it was a month ago.
Funnily enough, lots of people at my place are looking for other jobs. It's something you do, when you're told yours is under threat. Being chemists, on the whole, they look for jobs in the field of chemistry.
Someone found some jobs in chemistry.
Applying for jobs is a strange thing. Part of me feels optimistic as I sit there thinking, "That would be a great job for me." The other bit is all worried that I'm basing my life on a pipe dream.
Let's hope I'm not counting them too soon, but now I have my CV done and I'm looking at jobs to apply for, this feels better than I have for a bit.
Screw you, mind numbing clamp on my brain.
It's not neat, it's rough and all draft like, but I have words on paper that say I am great and vaguely resemble a CV.
Liam Neeson's almost but not quite got a good name, but don't let that put you off.
Just heard that there are going to be 22 reduncancies from 76 chemists in my department.
Better dust off/write that CV then...
Ahem....
One of these arrived in the post this morning...
:)