A New Direction

One of the reasons I wanted to go to cooking school is that the life of a dot-commer isn't very stable, and I have a knack for getting laid off. Like I did today.

I knew it was going to happen at some point. Big company buys little company. Little company is based in Portland, Oregon, and has two stray, random full-time workers in New York who are in a different time zone and aren't really a part of the team because of the distance.

In fact, I knew it was going to happen soon, because I caught my boss lurking around in the tools I use to do my job, trying to figure out how they work. I told TYM last night over a lovely Sri Lankan dinner that I thought I might be losing my job, and he told me I was just being paranoid. I'd hoped he was right.

When I couldn't access email or any tools this morning, I didn't even make the connection. Then I got the call. I think it was an odd way to treat an employee who'd been there for two years, happily, but business is business. In reality, they screwed themselves by doing it that way, because my to-do list isn't going to get to-done.

Now, the question is, what to do? Find another job, or chill out until I finish school? I guess I'll let the Flamingos help me figure that out this weekend.