Laid-off
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Laid-Off
I didn’t think it would happen for at least a couple weeks but today around 10:30 I was told my company didn’t have enough money to keep me on.
I’ve been working there since September (i think) and one of the first things I told myself was - “I’m going to work hard and not act like I own the company.î. I usually have a hard time working for someone else after owning my own company for about a year. Everything can be done better but when I got the job I just wanted to learn.
I wanted to see how they operated and see what they did in various situations. Throughout the months I got to do just those things. I learned alot from my boss (Aaron Pinkus) and our designer (Derek Fricano). The biggest thing I learned was to keep my mouth shut and not be a know it all. What I found out —- I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. Understanding that I in return - learned that much more.
The New Media Design Group didn’t exactly lay me off all the way. I’m still planning on working there on Friday’s but just working on a Friday isn’t much money to bring home for food and rent.
I sometimes wish I never became a web developer. Web developers have a long history of job instability and seem to resort to alot of freelance work.
I’ve done the freelance thing for a while and I’ll be honest in saying it’s the life. The only bad part about it is the inconsistency you have. You might make $12,000.00 in one month but the not get any more work for the rest of the year. Other times you’ll get alot of crappy $500.00 sites that sadly enough require more of your time than those high paying projects.
I’m interested in seeing how everything works out. I move next month and will luckily be paying alot less in rent. Today will mostly be filled with trying to figure out how to make ends meet and finishing up some other freelance work Iím currently working on.
Do you know of where I can get a job?
Derek is a closet optimist Says:
the feeling is mutual, schaapy - I know I learned a truckload from you, and it’s a huge, huge bum deal that you won’t be here more than one day a week. Hopefully, though, it’s a temporary thing. I’ll make sure the seat is kept warm for you.
I’m with you on the questioning the job thing, too, but I guess I refuse to have a job that I hate just to make a paycheck. I’ve never had a job that’s more personally pleasing than web design, and I’ve never wanted to work so hard to better what I do. It’s dangerous, having a passion awakened by a job that earns notoriously little security or bank (especially in West Michigan). But who knows. We might be able to change that, and I’m willing to try. In spite of my normally grumpy attitude, I choose to be optimistic on this one thing at least.