It's been a while since I posted, but my life is really crazy right now. My job is currently downsizing, because of outsourcing. They decided to outsource about a year ago, but this didn't effect anyone's job right away. Apparently the salary that they were offering the people who they outsourced the work to wasn't enough. They took the training and then moved on to other companies who offered them more pay doing the same work. So as a result of this outsourcing the orders started to get backlogged and clients started to get pissed, which resulted in them going to other companies that could get the job done. This lead to loss of revenue for the company and you know what happens next. It started with the sales people at the being of the fiscal year (March 2007) . A total of 140 sales people where let go. The group I supported started out with 20 people and was down to 3 by the middle of September. I just knew it was coming my way sooner or later. It finally happened on September 19th. My supervisor called me in to give me the bad news/good news, my last day is September 28th. I received a package which consist of 16 weeks of pay, 6 months worth of health insurance payments (which I could opt to keep or use towards the health insurance coverage) and Career Transition Services (resume writing and interview skills). In addition, I'm also eligible for unemployment benefits starting October 1st. So for the past 2 weeks I've been home trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. This is an opportunity for me to make a career change but I'm not sure which direction I want to go.

On the knitting front, I joined a KAL on Ravelry for Mr Greenjeans. I'm using Cascade 220 in Pink Rose Heather. I haven't cast on yet because the patterns has an error and I'm not quite sure how many stitches to cast on.

I finally finished the Jaywalkers.


I'm also giving yarn away to any takers. I don't want to hold onto it anymore because I definitely don't plan on using it. If you're interested email me at smkfreeshawn at gmail dot com.



This is my longest post ever!!!!