Deb

I received another email reply today. It boils down to you’re over qualified, too bad, so sad.

It’s becoming a tad depressing. Maybe I should move to a totally strange city and become Wal-Mart Greeter.

I get to be interviewed by the priest and the RCIA director on Jan 30. I’m on my way!

Stange to be this excited about changing religions when in my mid-fifties (oops, did I just say that)?

The name has changed through the years to become more PC: laid off; RIF (Reduction in force); Position eliminated. No matter how you say it, the results are the same – unemployed. Happened to me, but I can survive this down time because I did the impossible – I saved three months salary. That little emergency fund will be restocked once I am employed again. It was worth the pain.

I did it by dropping small things like lunch out or an extra snack, etc. Then on each payday I’d transfer any remaining funds in my checking account to my savings account, this plus the steady $100 deposit per pay period worked. The savings sweep became exciting. I found that I’d try to “up the ante” each payday, like trying to beat my own record.