Anybody Hiring?

   Well crap.  I was just terminated.  No fault of my own.  I work........worked for a university and when the grant money doesn't come in cuts have to be made.  I am just glad that I was able to have the surgery before my termination. Oh well.  On to bigger and better things. Randy

Sorry to hear that.  Make sure your skills are up to date.  Check with a community college or the 4 year school where you went about retraining.  Update the old resume and try and do some networking.  Keep active and involved or you'll have the temptation to sit around the house and eat and play the computer.  Good luck...Brian

You'll be able to attack your new position with a new energy and lightness. If I were in that position, I'd stop working out at 5:00 and just work out all day.

Good Luck,

Dave

It must have been time to move on.  Mabe this was to push you into a better opportunity.  Keep us posted.

What they said and wishing you good luck in your search.

Lou

I'm looking for a job too. I'm not out of a job, but I'm tired of the dishonest, snake in the grass, ******** I'm working for. And I need to leave before my disposition turns completely to **** and I give them a justification for letting me go. So I feel your pain bro. It's hard for a man to keep a smile on his face when he either doesn't have a job, or doesn't have a job that he finds satisfactory. I'll keep trying to get 'er done if you will.

Fishdude  are you coming to the Dallas Event this weekend?   We have a post-op member of the Texas Board (I think she lives in Forney or somewhere near) that is also recently unemployed and still looking for work .   I encouraged her (and you too) to come to the Event and hopefully you both might be able to develop some job leads and tips through networking there ..

No. I won't be there this time.  I live 300 miles from Dallas. To expensive to travel that far for more than once or twice a year. And I'm still reeling from all the  money I spent getting back and forth to Dallas for the pre-op and post-op meetings with the drs office. Not to mention the $25k I laid out for the surgery itself. I've got plenty of contacts in my field. It's just finding something that fits both me and my wife professionally and a community that is healthy for our kids. Making all the pieces fit together is the problem. Thanks for the offer though. JF

 Randy, I don't mean to plant ideas in your head, but did they give you a specific reason(s) as to why YOU were chosen for the lay-off?    I'm always suspicious whenever a newbie WLSer is selected for termination  --  maybe something else is going on behind the scenes, jealousy of a superior, or maybe even outright discrimination ..   

I have known that this was coming for some time.  At one time we were one of the best funded Protein Research Labs in the country.  We were a NASA: Center for the Commercialization of Space in the late 80's and through most of the 90's.  When the shuttle incident over Texas happened we had 4 payloads on board.  Needless to say we haven't done in Micro-gravity Crystallography since then. I was responsible for maintaining the X-ray Crystallography Facility.  This meant Scheduling user's. billing for the usage, securing service contracts for the various equipment and doing routine repairs on the equipment.  I also over the course of 15 years learned a great deal about unix/linux and several other operating systems. The official reason for termination was: Due to Budget constraints within the Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering. I really am quite positive about everything so far.  I am making appointments with the HR departments at the University and polishing my resume.  Hopefully someone will let me transition into IT after all is said and done. Does anyone here have IT certifications?  Are they worth getting?  What is the process? Wow this is the getting a little long.  Type to ya later. Randy