Trying to be optimistic here. I estimate 2-3 weeks of free time between jobs (cross my fingers). I actually, hope I'm wrong but my information says I'm going to get kicked to the curb. I guess the only option is to start looking for jobs now as I am freaking out that I won't get a funemployment check in which case there will be no funemployment.
- Jon in a new industry? (Don't really want to)
- GMAT study time
- Research launching a business
- Take classes or partake in hobbies I couldn't otherwise while employed?
I already have a game plan, unfortunately I didn't think of it sooner but I'm working on it now, better late than never. The plan is to "come back stronger" despite the blemish on my resume.
In the meantime I'm gonna <sub> do my best to</sub> absolutely kill it until I get canned.
Spend the first few days just doing...nothing. Wake up without an alarm, stay up late for as long as you want, watch that goofy movie/tv show you've been wanting to for months. Go ahead and research things you find interesting, chosing to spend your time on your own priorities. Take a long weekend trip to someplace if you want. Do enough random stuff to write a book about it and become self published and then make us all sit down with our SO on a Friday night to watch the movie adaptation of it and lament that someone had the imagination to even think of that idea.
Actually I have two book ideas. 1. (Untitled) - It'll be written in the style of Tools of TItans. It'll focus on the the interviewing owners of small to medium sized businesses in cities and towns around America. It'll help people learn about how successful businesses were established. I think a lot of what we see nowadays is like an Instagram reel of glamour shots. We need to get the unedited story out. If you were taking a dump while you thought up of your multi-million dollar business and made your most important business decisions, I want to know. I'll be writing non-fiction.
Number 2 is called Career Day. I'm sure it's been done before but I'll find a way to make it better.
You’re going to get a new job in 2-3 weeks? Seems a bit optimistic.
I was going to write a play for optimism, but after re-reading the OP I gotta agree. I made the mistake of thinking they already had another role accepted with a start date and after submitting their two weeks the employer just says "pack your ish and GTFO" giving a two to three weeks of funemployment. Your scenario is going to be a great smack upside the head from reality at least.
I'm not being foolishly optimistic but what I wrote above sure makes it seem that way. If I start the job search now, and find a good gig, that would be the best outcome. Unfortunately I'm not seeing a lot of relevant positions. I'm prepping my resume and exploring linkedin. I'm afraid this will lost more than several months and I won't get an unemployment check. If I get no unemployment I'm going to have to find a part time job of some sort to pay rent and such.
During this time I'm going to take some writing courses because my writing and grammar has regressed terribly. I also need the practice for my MBA admissions essay and that potential book. I'm prepping to avoid coming out of this with a head full of gray hair or a cognitive deficit caused by chronic stress. (Tons of research on long term effects of unemployment and stress). At least I have time to prep; nobody wants to interrupt their holiday vacations to onboard a new employee.
Until this comes to pass I'm going to stay serious at work and try not to stress out too much about what is to come. I brought up some items during our team meeting like a normal employee.
For every year of experience you have, that's the typical number of months it will take you to find the proper next position. So, as brutal as it is honest, you have no idea how idealistic and optimistic that short a job search would be. Take the sage advice of many wisened people on here and do some homework on local headhunters that'll search for you, prep you, resume massage, etc.
In the meantime, just keep trying to make work...work. Nothing wrong with starting a job search now just for your own benefit, but don't tank what's already paying your bills in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hell, if people can shuffle in and out of the same cubicle for decades at a time in a mindless repitition, you can last for another few months. It's always easier to find a new job if you're already working instead of explaining why you got laid off to a potential manager.
All those thing you listed out are good things to keep up on in your afterhours and should be on your daily to-do list anyways. Also, if you're getting canned, it'll happen this week and they're not onboarding anyone until after the 3rd.
They never fired me. I think I'm getting underpaid and it's better for them to keep me on than to pay unemployment.
Never fired you? They should. Let me make a call to your firm.
I DM'ed you my boss's number.
why did you think you were getting canned anyway
Sneaky. Bender.
Go on Tinder/Bumble/Hinge and hook up with girls
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