a really crappy day

This post has nothing at all to do with walking, mostly. So if you don't want to listen to a fat girl ranting, wait till tomorrow. I'll be better then.

I'm a graphic designer. We are employed by the whim of whoever the creative director /editor/whatever is. It is very typical that a new person comes in, fires the staff and rebuilds the department to their liking.

We got our new boss in September. I was just starting to relax. But today was the day. The axe came down and it hit me, among other people.

What does that mean? It means in the near future my income will decrease by at least half. If not more. I don't know when. Soon. But maybe as much as two months. Three part-time positions are being merged into one full time position. When that new person arrives, I am gone. Thanks for 16 years. Here's the door. Don't let it hit you on the way out.

Right now I am still in panic mode.  I don't really have much savings, I've loaned it out to family members in need. Stupid. But me. I had already begun the process of budgeting and rebuilding. The rebuilding will be put on hold and the little savings will be ravaged more. Hopefully not depleted. The budget will be so tight it will squeek. That means the walking adventures are going to be limited. No more fancy hotel stays and long trips. No walking vacations. Except for ones already paid for, of course.

Hopefully, I can get a third teaching job. Graphic Design is a young persons profession. There is no way my skills match the needs of the 2015 employer. At 59, I am a dinosaur.

I just realized that I don't teach in summer because I had a day job. Summer classes meet four-days a week for five hours a day. For maybe five weeks. Maybe this summer I can teach the summer term. Blessings in disguise?

This is not new. It has happened with every job. I always find something else. If not there is always Target or Wegman's. Just don't put me near money.

Action steps:

• Tell the roomie in the morning. She will not take it well.
• Rewrite and update resumé
• Put some sort of a portfolio together. Including a digital one. I haven't had one in 16 years. And I really don't have anything to put in it.
• Maybe design some business cards to network with.

Breath. It will all be okay. There is no alternative.