Just a quick update: Life has been a major storm the last couple of years.
2012 - My darling wife diagnosed with Bi-polar II - what a whirlwind and on top of that we had a major home remodeling project going on at the same time. Add again I had to change jobs in late 2011 and learning and adapting to a new job was twisted into that mess. Now to think of it I should be a total wreck but wait...
2013 - In late 2012 just as the bi-polar/remodeling storm was subsiding, my job stress was cranking up and my boss began writing me up for some ambiguous things. The first I took in stride and said we could both work better on communication and that now that I know certain meetings were a priority, I would make them just that. I thought things were good until I got written up again, this time for not getting a couple of different projects done in time although they never had a priority or date to complete set, we made them then and I proceed to meet the objectives. I was in a bit of shock as I told them I had never been put under these PIPs (performance improvement plans) before in my career but I would work harder and do better which i did. I had the feeling I should start looking for new work but my goal was to accept the challenge and see if I could meet and weather the storm. I met and exceed all that was asked of me until one day...
I made a mistake and accidentally disconnected connectivity to the email servers due to troubleshooting. Although my initial testing showed nothing wrong, I didn't 'react in a timely manner' and with a smile on my boss's face he released me. At the same time the 'big' projects that I was brought on for ended and the techs were back in-house working in my environment without talking to me, one of my guys moved to a new position and I wasn't brought in until the day he moved, so the the writing was on the proverbial wall months before I was let go. They just picked a weird way to go about it which sucked but here I am 10 months later still with no job but somehow making it through life.
I'll write more later on my experience as a 56 year old job hunter.
