Even at $100/hr/day, I'm sure you made out ok.I just lost a job today, I got the crown to withdraw a criminal charge so that client is no longer employing me....that case started last September....
What do you do for a living?
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Sorry wrong agency but it seems more folks might want out anymore...
As of tomorrow I'm unemployed, and then on Monday I am employed again but take a pay cut to zero for two years.
Got my engineering BS 3 years ago and going back for my masters in engineering in a week. Leaving my engineering job at a fortune 500 company to make nothing, seems smart right!?!
I wrangled up a research job in the department so tuition is free I'm just not getting paid. Considering tuition is like 30 flipping grand a year getting free tuition for sorta part time work isn't bad.
Thankfully my to be wife has a job that paid the same as I was making so she's covering the living expenses for the next 2 years. I side hustle pretty good building models so between tuition paid, her covering the living expenses and my side jobs covering my fun money I should have no student loan debt all said and done.
Could be worse!!
Got my engineering BS 3 years ago and going back for my masters in engineering in a week. Leaving my engineering job at a fortune 500 company to make nothing, seems smart right!?!
I wrangled up a research job in the department so tuition is free I'm just not getting paid. Considering tuition is like 30 flipping grand a year getting free tuition for sorta part time work isn't bad.
Thankfully my to be wife has a job that paid the same as I was making so she's covering the living expenses for the next 2 years. I side hustle pretty good building models so between tuition paid, her covering the living expenses and my side jobs covering my fun money I should have no student loan debt all said and done.
Could be worse!!
I thought I worked 9 to 5 but not today, just got a call, 2 of my clients got arrested for careless driving and both of their tow trucks got impounded for 7 days......see ya'll later....
I didn't realize I have an update to this thread.
I was with a large accounting firm in the Internal Communications Department (video production and editing) for 25 years until we were booted in favor of an overseas external agency in April of 2017.
I was able to freelance for a year handling smaller projects that might have otherwise fallen through the cracks. But nothing was an annual thing that I could count on with any regularity.
The second year, I was able to latch on to a different creative department who was getting a lot of the internal work from the people who didn't want to deal with the overseas external agency. It was a contractor position which paid extremely well, but no benefits were included. At that same time I was able to purchase some of the leftover production equipment from the department that was killed off which I installed in my basement office and allowed me to work from home. I was able to maintain a flexible schedule which was awesome, and also take on other projects such as the end of season highlights video for the local high school football team.
The work I was turning out caught the attention of the higher ups in this other Creative Department and I was able to convince them to bring me back full-time with benefits and everything. I started back last Monday.
While these last two years won't count, I was able to maintain my 25 full-time years of service and pick back up where I left off. I also didn't have to settle for a lower salary compared to the rest of this market. While it's lower than I was making as a contractor, it's equivalent to where I would have been if I was never let go and received two years of annual raises.
I know my situation is rare, but once in a while things actually turn around for the better.
I was with a large accounting firm in the Internal Communications Department (video production and editing) for 25 years until we were booted in favor of an overseas external agency in April of 2017.
I was able to freelance for a year handling smaller projects that might have otherwise fallen through the cracks. But nothing was an annual thing that I could count on with any regularity.
The second year, I was able to latch on to a different creative department who was getting a lot of the internal work from the people who didn't want to deal with the overseas external agency. It was a contractor position which paid extremely well, but no benefits were included. At that same time I was able to purchase some of the leftover production equipment from the department that was killed off which I installed in my basement office and allowed me to work from home. I was able to maintain a flexible schedule which was awesome, and also take on other projects such as the end of season highlights video for the local high school football team.
The work I was turning out caught the attention of the higher ups in this other Creative Department and I was able to convince them to bring me back full-time with benefits and everything. I started back last Monday.
While these last two years won't count, I was able to maintain my 25 full-time years of service and pick back up where I left off. I also didn't have to settle for a lower salary compared to the rest of this market. While it's lower than I was making as a contractor, it's equivalent to where I would have been if I was never let go and received two years of annual raises.
I know my situation is rare, but once in a while things actually turn around for the better.
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