I was fired from my job in which I only had three more years until retirement.
I was devastated. I felt as though it was wrong because I had worked 48 hours straight to finish this project, I know that it would have done a lot of harm to our economy in the state if it was not completed.
When I was asked to make changes to that project, because, quote, “We needed to do a workflow in the state until a new form of government came into place”.
I didn’t agree with it, and when I was told, if you did not make changes, you were fired, because I was in a position that operated at will. I was fired.
I thought my life was gone at the age of 50, I didn’t know how I could ever work another job and if anybody would hire me.
Lo and behold, friends called upon me that I had worked with and asked me to consider a contract position, which I did. I worked that contract position for nine months, and I was hired on as a full-time employee, making triple the salary of what I had worked and previously been fired from.
Yes, I was still upset because my retirement was gone, but the rewards I received and the retirement I received from that new company outweighed it.
I couldn’t see it at that time, so I was suffering, but the benefits 15 years later, more than replaced what I had gone through.
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