Rant: Laid off today...

[IndyColtsFan]

I think some of you are taking what I said way too far. I don't have a job offer in Pittsburgh, and they didn't want me to transfer to Pittsburgh. Right now, all I have is interest from the guys I worked with there, and one of the guy's personal e-mail addresses. Of course I am going to look into it further.

I don't see what the benefit of moving would be.

Look at the big picture. You're in a very small employment market. You might find something, but your pickings are slim. If you move to a metro area with 2 million+ (like Pittsburgh, Indy, Cincy, etc), you will have MANY more options your entire life.

As I said in my previous post, I faced a similar scenario many years ago but there was no way I was going to get stranded in freaking Tonawanda NY so I bought time and found something local.

 

[Childs]

Just be thankful you have family to help you out. Its not that ego crushing since you were already living with your parents. Things will turn around. Since you're young and single without an real financial responsibilities you can still do things on your terms.

I was laid off twice during the bubble bursts and unemployed for long stretches of time. After eventually burning though my savings and selling everything I owned I had to move back home with my mom, and I was around your age. So deflating, but things turn around if you stick to it. 5 years later I paid off my moms mortgage, so now she owes me! When I visit I tell her to take out the trash and clean shit up. Just be sure to keep an enemies list for everyone that gives you shit. You'll have your day.

 

[dmcowen674]

I also have stock options that fully vested on 12/31/14 that should net me ~$5k, if I read the paperwork correctly.

Check the fine print.

Normally you have to be still employed by the Company for the stock options to vest.

 

[skimple]

We joined up with another company last year, with the idea that they would take over the production aspect of the business. I've worked with them throughout the year and I guess my company feels they know enough to take over design and production. :\

The big yellow box?

 

[BoomerD]

No its not. Never apply through Indeed! Find the job posting then find it through the employers website manually. Don't have the indeed cookies referencing you as an indeed applicant. You'll never get the job if you apply through indeed. I would know :awe:.

Well...if it was Career Builder or Monster, I'd agree 100%, but I still agree...at least in concept. Indeed is a job posting aggregator. Use it to find the openings, apply in person or on the company's website.

 

[SP33Demon]

Engineering just isn't what it used to be.

 

[Kev]

My position was terminated because the company is heading in another direction. I was brought on as a mechanical engineer to oversee design and production of their products. We joined up with another company last year, with the idea that they would take over the production aspect of the business. I've worked with them throughout the year and I guess my company feels they know enough to take over design and production. That company even told my company they were looking for engineers like me to hire, and have reached out to me to see if I would be a fit in their company. Unfortunately, they are located in Pittsburgh and I have no desire to move away from family.

This all comes while I am searching for a home to purchase in a slow real estate market. Unless I find another job soon, I probably won't be able to get a mortgage. To top it all off, I am living at my parents house because the house I was renting had mold in it that the landlord did not want to take care of.

So I am a single, jobless 27 year old living with my parents. :\

Look on the bright side, it's nothing but up from here

 

[amdhunter]

Just move!!!!

It will probably be the best thing you've ever done.
Leave the parents!!! You are young and can always go back if everything goes to crap.

 

[BoberFett]

Nah, just kidding. Layoffs happen. You pick yourself up and dust yourself off, because that's what life is, repeatedly picking yourself up after getting smacked down. Good luck.

 

[unokitty]

My position was terminated because the company is heading in another direction...

So I am a single, jobless 27 year old living with my parents. :\

First
I feel for you. A few decades ago, I was laid off. It was a surprise. It stung for a while...

Second
In time, you'll get over that and realize that you have a great opportunity.

Third
Sounds like your head is screwed on straight.

Fourth
Sounds like you have good parents.

Fifth
Its normal to be anxious when your work plans are interrupted by forces beyond your control. Nonetheless, with what you have going for you, I am confident that you will do well.

With that out of the way, Florida Keys are nice this time of year.

Best of luck!
Uno

 

[Anubis]

just move to pitt

if not start looking for another job in ROC, BUFF, SYR and Corning

 

[lupi]

You're going to have some pretty limited options through the foreseeable future if you're only going to work within distance of your parents house.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

You're going to have some pretty limited options through the foreseeable future if you're only going to work within distance of your parents house.

Right!

Look, the more specialized you are the more national the market for your labor becomes. If you want to succeed at life (house, wife, kids, retirement) then you're going to have to step out of your home town mindset.

 

[Imp]

If you still want to be an engineer, then you're way ahead of me.

I did 6 years of engineering school and just had enough of the industry by 28 (i.e. quit). Currently exploring other opportunities (i.e. unemployed).

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

If you still want to be an engineer, then you're way ahead of me.

I did 6 years of engineering school and just had enough of the industry by 28 (i.e. quit). Currently exploring other opportunities (i.e. unemployed).

lazy scum of the earth. Yeah Engineering does tend to take things like... thinking.

 

[Carson Dyle]

lazy scum of the earth. Yeah Engineering does tend to take things like... thinking.

I get a kick out of the ones who say "I can't stand being inside all day sitting at a desk". Yeah, I know what you mean ... I thought I was going to get an EE degree and spend my work days hiking through alpine meadows and exploring coral reefs.

 

[Imp]

lazy scum of the earth. Yeah Engineering does tend to take things like... thinking.

lol... Where have you guys been? I've been waiting for months to be judged by you guys. Most people have been pretty ambivalent so far. I've been mentioning it constantly.

But let me just reply: nowhere did I say my problem was with "thinking."

I get a kick out of the ones who say "I can't stand being inside all day sitting at a desk". Yeah, I know what you mean ... I thought I was going to get an EE degree and spend my work days hiking through alpine meadows and exploring choral reefs.

Nowhere did I say my problem was with having to work outside.

Please continue to make assumptions.

I'm actually working on my own business. Might fail, but I thought I'd take a chance and do something I wanted. I am so sorry I disappointed you guys.

P.S. I spent 5 years working in engineering with a 3 hour daily commute. Full-time + casual job, AND did my graduate degree part-time. I'm so god damn lazy.

 

[MongGrel]

Best of luck to you.

Things been odd here at the start of the year also, we've rearranged things in the shop a bit, had a guy running the night shift they moved to days, as he had been messing around a lot.

Had about three guys on night shift running CNC's and no one wanted to take over locking the place up etc, and they eliminated the night shift altogether yesterday.

Odd things are afoot, the guy in charge of days and myself and a few others have been speaking of things, change is in the wind, probably for the better shop wise.

Some tuning up going on...

 

[IndyColtsFan]

exploring choral reefs.

OMG, reefs that SING?!?!?!?!

lazy scum of the earth. Yeah Engineering does tend to take things like... thinking.

I did six years of engineering school too and by the end, I was pretty burned out though being an RA in a lab was fun. Many, many years later, I'm an IT consultant and just getting more and more burned out on that. I can understand his frustration and wanting to do something different -- I want to as well, but I make too much money and am too old (44) to shift course now, I fear.

 

[Carson Dyle]

OMG, reefs that SING?!?!?!?!

You've never heard one, I'm assuming? :whiste:

 

[Gillbot]

Move to PGH, it's not that bad down here and Roch isn't that far away.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Move to PGH, it's not that bad down here and Roch isn't that far away.

Define 'bad', or even 'not that bad'. (I grew up near Pittsburgh.)

 

[Gillbot]

Depends on the area, but many view it as an old steel mill town that is jobless. The tech and medical industry has really picked up where steel left off and the job market is actually pretty decent.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

OMG, reefs that SING?!?!?!?!



I did six years of engineering school too and by the end, I was pretty burned out though being an RA in a lab was fun. Many, many years later, I'm an IT consultant and just getting more and more burned out on that. I can understand his frustration and wanting to do something different -- I want to as well, but I make too much money and am too old (44) to shift course now, I fear.

If you enjoyed research then you should know that many people who do engineering/nursing/business Ph.D.s retire early into being a professor (mid 40s). It would mean moving twice in the next few years (once for the program and once for the job) but you're definitely not too old to get a job as a prof.

 

[Puppies04]

5 years later I paid off my moms mortgage, so now she owns me!

Yup sounds like she owned you!