So yesterday my boss and I had lunch and discussed whatI feared was inevitable...my job getting laid off. I work in the bicycle industry as the warehouse manager for a smaller BMX company. The whole industry took a nosedive in the last year or so and have been worrying about my job for a bit.
Last monday I was running some errands with my boss and casually mentioned I was itching to possibly move out of state, across the country...somehwhere new at some point in the future. He pretty quickly asked if it would help if I were to opt to be laid off, if it would give me a solid nudge to do it. I said possibly and we talked a bit more, just tossing around ideas of where I was thinking about. I kept thinking about the way he brought up the lay off thing so I asked if we could grab lunch and talk about it. Basically as I feared, there is simply not enough work in any sort of consistency to justify the cost of keeping me around. He was actually realived I brought it up because he was trying to find an easy way to bring it up to me. We're a tight crew of close friends so while it is just business, there is no easy way to let people go you care about. I wasn't mad, I mean I basically saw this coming and the great thing about my job is even though he's my boss, he's also a very good friend of mine. He gave me an additional month of pay and is keeping me on insurance for the month aswell but the kicker was that after talking about wanting to move. He offered me a round trip plane ticket anywhere in the country I'd like to check out to move to. I'm seriously going to miss working for and with these guys but shit happens and sometimes the cards don't fall the way you expected them to but I've been given a nice opportunity here.
On top of this. My relationship isn't really doing much for me and I don't see it going anywhere substantial. It's become a one way street with me bending over backwards, paying for everything and doing everything with very little reciprocated and I'm about over it.
My friends group has become quite small as I have found myself simply wanting more from life than what the direction of my friend circle was taking me. Our local skatepark shut down this year and was my main outlet for fun and aggression and now I have almost no one to ride with that isn't a two hour drive away.
So R3V...talk me into or out moving far the fuck away from everything here. I like Columbus, it's a great city but I think I'm at a point where I have basically nothing to lose and everything to gain from trying out somewhere new. I have almost nothing keeping me here anymore aside from family. I'm thinking along the lines of Portland OR, norcal, Colorado. Somewhere very different than what I'm used to. I've never made such a drastic change in my life and I think it would be good for me.
Last monday I was running some errands with my boss and casually mentioned I was itching to possibly move out of state, across the country...somehwhere new at some point in the future. He pretty quickly asked if it would help if I were to opt to be laid off, if it would give me a solid nudge to do it. I said possibly and we talked a bit more, just tossing around ideas of where I was thinking about. I kept thinking about the way he brought up the lay off thing so I asked if we could grab lunch and talk about it. Basically as I feared, there is simply not enough work in any sort of consistency to justify the cost of keeping me around. He was actually realived I brought it up because he was trying to find an easy way to bring it up to me. We're a tight crew of close friends so while it is just business, there is no easy way to let people go you care about. I wasn't mad, I mean I basically saw this coming and the great thing about my job is even though he's my boss, he's also a very good friend of mine. He gave me an additional month of pay and is keeping me on insurance for the month aswell but the kicker was that after talking about wanting to move. He offered me a round trip plane ticket anywhere in the country I'd like to check out to move to. I'm seriously going to miss working for and with these guys but shit happens and sometimes the cards don't fall the way you expected them to but I've been given a nice opportunity here.
On top of this. My relationship isn't really doing much for me and I don't see it going anywhere substantial. It's become a one way street with me bending over backwards, paying for everything and doing everything with very little reciprocated and I'm about over it.
My friends group has become quite small as I have found myself simply wanting more from life than what the direction of my friend circle was taking me. Our local skatepark shut down this year and was my main outlet for fun and aggression and now I have almost no one to ride with that isn't a two hour drive away.
So R3V...talk me into or out moving far the fuck away from everything here. I like Columbus, it's a great city but I think I'm at a point where I have basically nothing to lose and everything to gain from trying out somewhere new. I have almost nothing keeping me here anymore aside from family. I'm thinking along the lines of Portland OR, norcal, Colorado. Somewhere very different than what I'm used to. I've never made such a drastic change in my life and I think it would be good for me.
i have no idea what i am doing with my life
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