I Got Fired, and it was Kinda Cool :-)

A wise man once said, you never know who you are until you get fired.  Not sure who said that first, but I’ve heard that saying before.  People always say, you really find out who you are when you get fired and have to scramble to survive.  Well, truth be told, I wasn’t fired because I’m still employed by my consulting company, but I was “let go for budget reasons” at the place I was consulting.  So, not really fired, but let’s say I worked for a different consulting company, I’d be out on the street looking for something new and would have to face a bunch of crappy consequences.

Ok, not the same thing, I know, but my point is, I always kinda thought, everyone eventually gets cut, fired, or something like that over a career, and I always feared that day.  So when I got the news, I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t give a crap.  I mean, it sucks to leave, it sucks to not be working and all that, but I guarantee, within a week, I’ll be working somewhere better, doing better work, learning new things… without a doubt because the company I work for is looking out for me.

Still more, what’s even better is that if they DON’T find something for me, my wife and I are finacially stable and she “sells” people with my skills, so she could find me something fast and I’d make even more money and she’d make money on my money…

Strange how this “firing” has opened my eyes.  I always feared this day, but now that it’s here, I wish it had happened a long time ago :-)  It’s just good to know that I’m in a good place right now and that I have a good career path, a good company behind me and a good wife behind me.  Working is actually kinda fun when you don’t care about getting canned