Just A Little Vent

Being made redundant once - blame the economy
Being made redundant twice - blame your employer's lack of adjustment to the new economic reality
Losing a 3rd job in a calendar year? Well, it's time to look at the common factor in all 3 cases...

Not that I've lost the job yet, but it's looking likely. Sales figures that started with a bang at the beginning of the year, have dwindled to insignificance, &, while others figures aren't that great either, questions are being asked, long looks are being given & official 'warnings' are mooted. As if I need an official warning to tell me that things aren't going well. What am I supposed to say to that? "Hey, thanks for the heads-up!!"

So it's been back to the job website shuffle these last couple of weeks, at least pre-empting any official return to them, looking at different fields, or at least related fields, as it would seem my sales career is over. As Kinky Friedman put it 'When the horse dies... get off'

I don't think I've lost the underlying enthusiasm for the sales process itself, but I certainly haven't been enjoying it for the last few years & the money is not what it once was, so you start to wonder why you've given up all those weekends when you could have been seeing friends, or doing all the things that 'normal' people do, instead of inwardly pleading with the disenfranchised, disinterested & diffident to part with their money so I can pay the bills

I can just about remember what it was like working Monday to Friday... I think I want that again