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Jamaican-Canadians
I just read Bob Marlay's biography and am under the impression that jamaica went independent in the late 70s/early 80s, did it not?
Anyway, I digress.
Kali, that really sucks. I myself got sacked twice, the first being when the translation company I was working for suffered a huge loss of business right after 9/11 and they had to cut personel like they were the hot knife and we were the butter. It really hurt and scared me. The second time was when I was working as a reporter for the State Security Bureau (which run the Police) because they had sacked my very dear boss-lady and replaced with a company suck-up who would censor almost everything we wrote and reduced us to copying & pasting police reports on to the website. So I decide to slack off as hard as I could and see how long it would take them to fire me (about 40 days, it turned out). I left almost laughing out loud in their faces this time. The job was a fucking nightmare of human misery anyway, with dead children and criminal cartels going berzerk on an almost daily basis. The only good thing about it was the occasional adrenaline rush.
Both times the salary sucked.
And now I live in the boss-free, misery-free, and corporate bullshit-free environment of self-employment/free-lancing, which is great in some aspects, but admitedly lacks in security, Christmass bonus and dental plan and the such (as well as adrenaline rushes). I wouldn't change for anything, tho (other than for a buttload of cash...)
So, my advice to you is to see this as an opportunity rather than a setback. It's not easy, granted, but it helps. Who knows, your dream job may be waiting for you right out of your honey-moon. Have faith in yourself, Kali, I bet everyone around you already does.... |
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