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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2007-04-18 03:14 pm

BAM! in la vie de TKP

Wow, that was really surreal.

I just got fired from my job. Like, two minutes ago, I was told, starting tomorrow, no more job. It was a PRN job which I guess means they used me on an "as needed" basis, which I guess means they can fire me with no warning? Or can you always fire someone without warning? A bunch of other people are getting shafted with Whatever Is Happening too; a bunch of the OR techs were just told they would only need to be there during actual surgery, which means they only need to be there for several hours a week, and some basically don't need to be there any more at all. But it's weird; it's confusing, and everybody except me is really sad but they're not acting that way.

I am not actually sad because this was a very temporary job that I was afraid I was going to get myself stuck in because I was too lazy to do anything about it. But now I'm going to be back in the flaily I-don't-know-what-to-do mode, the one where I know an English major can get jobs that pay, but I don't want to do anything except write, get published, be a big movie director, tango in Argentina with [livejournal.com profile] seraphcelene, open a bakery with my friend, be a big time editor, be a professor, study in India, start a cultural renaissance with my brother and s-i-l, live with nuns in the Alps, ride elephants in Malaysia, get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy, be in a poet/author circle like the Beats or the Romantics or something, make a POTO movie with [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga, establish my Universal Theory Of Fiction, touch people's lives, and eat ice cream.

[identity profile] stoney321.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my GOSH! Well, I don't know how may of your goals I can help you with aside from the ice cream... Two scoops?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
DUDE! I need to eat lots of icecream after this! Three! Even though I'm not really sad about it the occasion seems to deserve it. Except I'm trying to do this South Beachy two week thing and that is NOT ON my plan.

[identity profile] janedavitt.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That just sucks; so sorry. God, they don't give you much chance to finish stuff off do they?

::hugs you tight::
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's strange and confusing! But I don't do much here, so...no loose ends.

*hugs back*

[identity profile] soundingsea.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yikes, sorry to hear about the scary! Even when you don't want to be in a job, it's always disconcerting for it to end at a time not of your choosing/planning.

The list of things you do want to do, though, is awesome!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was just so out of the blue.

I want to be Larry in The Razor's Edge, mostly.

Thanks.

[identity profile] ex-dovil323.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy crapola! Sorry that you got that thrown in your lap, it must have been a hell of a shock.

But don't worry, as they say when one door shuts you just throw a rock through the window and climb on through and take the tv and run before the dogs get you. I have complete faith in you!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was crazy! It's still crazy!

Running with tvs is hard. Can't I just watch the tv until the owner comes home, and then run? The dog will be alright with it if I bring meat.

*cooks bacon*

...

mmm. bacon...

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[identity profile] spiralleds.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oi. How disconcerting. As already stated, even if you weren't peachy keen on the job, it's never easy to hear, "You position is terminated. Don't come back tomorrow."
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly. Thanks. 'Cause I feel like I shouldn't be feeling wigged but I am.

Hee! Your icon.

[identity profile] cordelianne.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness, surreal is definitely the right word! It sounds like you have great perspective on the situation - and what an awesome list of things you want to do! I think ice cream sounds like a good place to start! *hugs*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I just made plans to go to a ritzy place for dinner. So that's kinda like icecream, yay!

Yeah, I'm glad I'm not going to still be doing this job in 5 years, but I thought I'd at least be in it for another 5 months, so it's weird!
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[personal profile] lynnenne 2007-04-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry you lost your job! But this will give you more time to focus on your writing. Start steeling yourself for rejection letters! ;)

*hugs*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Iloveyousomuch!

(((hugs back)))

[identity profile] romanyg.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch! It always sucks when someone says, "Thank you, no. Bye!" Even if it is for the best.

*loves on your list though*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. She should also learn not to use the phrase, "we're cancelling you"! I feel sorry for her (my boss) though; she had to fire so many people today.

Thanks so much, R!

[identity profile] canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear about this! I'm sure you'll find something else much better, though. In some ways maybe the flailiness will be a good kick in the butt to find something you really like?

I don't want to do anything except write, get published, be a big movie director, tango in Argentina with seraphcelene, open a bakery with my friend, be a big time editor, be a professor, study in India, start a cultural renaissance with my brother and s-i-l, live with nuns in the Alps, ride elephants in Malaysia, get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy, be in a poet/author circle like the Beats or the Romantics or something, make a POTO movie with my_daroga, establish my Universal Theory Of Fiction, touch people's lives, and eat ice cream.

And hey, who says you can't do those things? I mean, maybe not all at the same time, but still!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was jobless before this job, but I never really kicked into gear 'cause I was just outta school...so maybe this'll be the impetus to start doing something! Thanks.

And yeah, I definitely think I can do some of that stuff, if I really put my heart into it.

[identity profile] southernbangel.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch, sorry about the job, honey. Even if you didn't like the job and you didn't have "OMG CAREER FOR ME!" type love for it, still hard to hear, "Sorry, no more."

get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy,

This is about all I can help you with. We can move into the woods together and be the creepy neighbors who frighten lost hikers. And then kill and eat their brainsssssss.

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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much.

Dude, we could be such cool hack slash killers! Except for the part where I would be on your doorstep all the time making puppy eyes and asking you to watch B/A scenes with me, and we would eat so much that we wouldn't have room to eat brains!

*adds to life goals*

[identity profile] chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
One door closes, baby...
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. That's definitely what I'm thinkin'.

[identity profile] semby.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry about the job. I think most companies *can* always fire someone with no warning, but that's usually only if the employee does something particularly bad and punishable. So, I can imagine the shock of just being let go suddenly because you're not "needed" anymore. Did they offer an explanation?

But anyway, I think your dreams are fabulously awesome and you should do ALL OF THEM. What's holding you back now?

In any case, good luck with whatever next step you take!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the explanation is they're not getting a lot of business...it's a specialty hospital for only a few types of *cosmetic* surgery and I guess not too many people have been signing up for that. Apparently the OR techs thought something like this *might* happen, because they see how few people have been scheduled to get surgeries, but my job is really just manning the desk so I don't really see that. Still, they were kinda blindsided too.

I want to do all of them eventually, or if I don't do something like...study in India I want to replace it with something like...teach in Africa. The main thing holding me back on most of that stuff now is money, my insecurity, and laziness. I'm trying to write right now, but getting published doesn't depend on me so much.

Thanks so much, semby. *hugs*
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[personal profile] seraphcelene 2007-04-18 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
F*&K!!! WTF?! OMG!

This is too much all at once. From the heights to the depths, for me, in like five minutes. I'm not processing. I want to be outraged on your behalf, but you're so taking it in stride that you've knocked the wind out of my sails.

Can you collect unemployment while you look for another position? I'll be ready for Argentina as soon as I get my passport. Give me three months. And I got to come to the Alps, too. Don't leave me behind!!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I love you, L! I love ya lots! Dude, you have no idea how you brighten my day. I just want to box you up and take you out whenever I need shiny!

I wrote a story once about a tiny man a girl kept in a box and he was Argentinean. Coincidence? I think not.

I don't know anything about collecting unemployment...since it was like a temp job I don't know if I qualify? But anyway, I just spoke to my friend who actually said there was an admin job at *her* work were her bosses kept saying what they'd really like was "a smart student" to work the job part-time. That is exactly what I'm looking for as I apply to grad school, so it would be groovy.

Anyway, it's hard to complain about losing a job that I only ever regarded as a stepping stone. And lately I've been so comfortable in it (writing fanfic, hee!) that I've been worrying I won't remember to get myself out of it, you know? So it's all good.

But I still admire your exclamations and use of ampersands and asterisks! ;o)

[identity profile] violaclaire.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Eek, I'm so sorry. Even if it's not a "Yay, perfect job!" situation, that still sucks. But, on the plus side, you have the best list of life goals I've ever read.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, thanks so much! It does suck, but I might already have another job. Well, tomorrow I find out more about it. How cool is that? Yay.

[identity profile] marenfic.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow-- I'm sorry. Not because you were in love with what you were doing, but because stability is always nice even if you don't plan to plant roots.

Though if you're taking votes on your life path, I like the "get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy", paired with the whole writing and publishing thing.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Lee said she would help me with that one so I'm stealing her away from you kthx.

Yeah, the cabin in the woods thing is really for when I have to write the One thing that will change my life forever. Or possibly for when I decide to quit humanity in general and write fanfic forever. Haven't decided. Maybe I *will* take votes.

Thanks so much.
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[identity profile] entrenous88.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ack! For some reason, temp positions often end that way, though wow, this was a singular lack of notice, wasn't it?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I suspected they might not need me before I didn't need them any more, but ...but I'm staring at a schedule right now that says I'm supposed to come in tomorrow! But, I have a place to live and food to eat and a mind with which to write so I'm good to go.

[identity profile] fodian.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
When I win the lottery, I'll totally float you.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally holding you to that. <3

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not sad on your behalf, since you're not. It appears that you know exactly what you wish to do (in fact, an overabundnace of what you wish to do), just that those fools out there don't want to pay you for it. Surely someone must have need of an elephant riding nun?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I love you, Robin. And yeah, I'm really not sad. I do wish the stuff I actually *want* to do was stuff that generated an income, but I have lots of options open (sadly nun for riding elephents...) so things're lookin' pretty bright.

[identity profile] kita0610.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Woah.

Wow.

*hugs*

Go write. Maybe you and I can do a whole thing where we encourage one another to actually send shit in to get published.

*hugs some more*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
I know! It's crazy.

I was thinking about that a bit ago, actually. What's weird is I know I would write if there were no one but me left on the planet. But I do better with encouragement, and I like encouraging. I want to work something out with those on my flist whose writing I respect and who I know are interested in getting published to...well, encourage. In school I was assigned to write short stories. God, I have no humility whatsoever, but I was so fucking kickass at it.

And thank you. (((hugs back)))

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[personal profile] rahirah 2007-04-19 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the last time I was let go I flailed for awhile, but it ultimately ended up being a good thing. So hopefully this will, too.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm so glad for you that it was. I think this will be too! It's nice for something good to come out of...well, getting fired! Thanks so much ;o)

[identity profile] moss6886.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
*points at icon*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Eee! I do love that icon!
*hugs*
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[identity profile] redbrickrose.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes! That sucks even if it wasn't the dream job. I'm sorry that happened. *hugs*

Your list of life goals is seriously awesome, though.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
ha, yeah. Thanks! I wish to do great, or at least fascinating, or at least diverse, things!

I'm not too worried about losing the job. It does suck, but now I have lots of options open to me. Hopefully!

[identity profile] filmnoir6.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear about job loss, tkp.

Hmm. In looking at your list of goals, they are rather impressive however probably needing organization or prioritizing (who needs that? :p). Eh, unless the order given is how they would happen which...may work! :p

[identity profile] stefanie-bean.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I would so watch any movie you would make with [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga...

Sorry about getting canned - hope you find something better soon!

[identity profile] imnotacommittee.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear about losing your job, mon amie. I'm sending you hugs and prayers.

Your life ambitions sound wonderful, especially opening a bakery or living with the Alpine nuns.

I know there's an open window in there. there always is. Keep your chin up!

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