six months after my last workplace went bankrupt, i’m out again. an international consultancy firm took me and all my colleagues in from the failing business and we got raises and bonuses… and now i’ve been let go. only me.

they’ve not managed to sell my skills anywhere for six months, so the decision makes economic sense, but… that just makes me feel useless. evidently the local office feels bad because they decided to pay out this month’s salary in full, but that doesn’t really help with the self-esteem.

after all the shakiness of the bankruptcy and being lied to about great numbers leading up to it, i just wanted some stability. but fuck me i guess.

…so how’s your day?

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    10 days ago

    Today I got my first paycheck ever. As a 16yo, it feels like fortune, but deep inside I know it’s a minimal wage.

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      10 days ago

      congrats! it really changes how you see the world. remember to not lose perspective.

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      9 days ago

      I remember my first paycheck that wasn’t from temp stuff. I was 25, it was 2008, and I had just started a job that would become a proper career. I was used to living with almost nothing as a freelance computery guy, but not knowing how much I’d have the next month was getting really tiresome.

      The new job was steady and it paid reasonably well. Seeing that first sum tick in was such an amazing feeling, especially knowing it would happen every month. The shift in personal finances was cinderellesque.