BAM! in la vie de TKP

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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 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.

Comments

[semby.livejournal.com]

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!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

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*