I have been at my new job now for about 4 weeks. Everyday I go to work and I am smiling. I love the 3 people I work with, and I finally found a company I want to grow with.
Today I was getting ready to meet management who had flown over from Sweden and USA to meet with us. They sat us down in a small all white room, in the crappy building where our office is located. The CEO that delivered the news was a beautiful, elegant, typical Swedish woman. She smelt like clean laundry. Pen in hand, I was ready to take my notes. Plan for the year ahead.
Then she dropped the bomb. "We are shutting down Australia and NZ".
Wow. This is what I found out just 7 hours ago. I had taken a huge risk to change my career. I dropped law, for an international company, and now I can only stay here till July next year? If that? There will be no work. Nothing to do as we slowly have to cancel the exchange program.
I didn't know what to think. I mean, I thought about moving overseas - within the company, so I just expressed that to management. They said they'd try to help me find a job within the company somewhere overseas - but where will that be? Will that ever be?
I don't really know what to think right now. I thought I had found my dream job. My dream company. I can't go back to law. What have the few last days been?
Life is truely what happens when you are busy making other plans....
To top things off, we had an awkward dinner with management, as if to celebrate!? I tried to schmooze, but I was not in the mood. At one point the elegant Swedish CEO turned to me and said, " I watched a great Indian movie on the plane, and you know what? There was a great quote on there 'everything will work out in the end, and if it doesn't then its not the end!' ...then she raised her glass and said ''heres to new beginnings''.
Whatever the hell that means.
I'll keep you posted, but this song was what was going on through my head as the news was being delivered today.
Today I was getting ready to meet management who had flown over from Sweden and USA to meet with us. They sat us down in a small all white room, in the crappy building where our office is located. The CEO that delivered the news was a beautiful, elegant, typical Swedish woman. She smelt like clean laundry. Pen in hand, I was ready to take my notes. Plan for the year ahead.
Then she dropped the bomb. "We are shutting down Australia and NZ".
Wow. This is what I found out just 7 hours ago. I had taken a huge risk to change my career. I dropped law, for an international company, and now I can only stay here till July next year? If that? There will be no work. Nothing to do as we slowly have to cancel the exchange program.
I didn't know what to think. I mean, I thought about moving overseas - within the company, so I just expressed that to management. They said they'd try to help me find a job within the company somewhere overseas - but where will that be? Will that ever be?
I don't really know what to think right now. I thought I had found my dream job. My dream company. I can't go back to law. What have the few last days been?
Life is truely what happens when you are busy making other plans....
To top things off, we had an awkward dinner with management, as if to celebrate!? I tried to schmooze, but I was not in the mood. At one point the elegant Swedish CEO turned to me and said, " I watched a great Indian movie on the plane, and you know what? There was a great quote on there 'everything will work out in the end, and if it doesn't then its not the end!' ...then she raised her glass and said ''heres to new beginnings''.
Whatever the hell that means.
I'll keep you posted, but this song was what was going on through my head as the news was being delivered today.
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