After three long years, I have a new full time job with bennies and have been working at it since August of 2018.
The dry spell is over and I have had some time to look back on the shoals I have been traversing over since then.
What I have learned is this ... never get comfortable in a job and think you are not someone that they can do without. That is a load of horse pucky. Any and every job you have done as an employee can be done by someone else that isn't you.
I have also learned that when a severance is given out, hold onto it like it is gold and live a very austere lifestyle until you find another job that can pay the bills and feeds you. Stretching the dollar is not the easiest thing to do, but after a while, you get used to it and fall into the "do I really need that" mindset.
Do not be afraid to try to do other things that are outside of your wheel house, even if you do not end up with a new career out of it, it will be useful in the long run when you do manage to find something else.
Hopefully, this job will last till retirement, but in case it doesn't, I still have other skills to fall back on again.
Ciao,
Darrell
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