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Re: The Official Layoff Thread!!!
Just noticed this thread too. The economic conditions caught up to me as well.
I owned my own business for the past 5 years. Aside from rehabbing and selling 4 houses the past 5 years on the side, I also had a showroom and a kitchen design business. I would meet with contractors, consult on blueprints and then do the design work for kitchen layouts. Once that was completed, I then sold all the materials that went into the kitchen to the contractor or the end user. It was a pretty good business and I especially enjoyed the design work. Then yep...the housing market finally caught up to me and I had to shut down the business for good in October after several months of no jobs, and sold off most of the displays and materials and then leased the building. The last house i rehabbed for sale I lost money after my time was figued due to the housing prices falling drastically. So, without either of those two business ventures, I wrote up a resume based on my sales history and hit all job listing avenues. The last time I had an interview was in 1997 when i graduated from college, so needless to say I was a bit out of practice, but I took the "I can sell anything" attidude and ran with it. I was hired by a fantastic company in november and I am now working in medical sales again (a career I had for 6 years or so after college) fitting custom mobility solutions to patients with spinal cord injuries, muscular distrophy, cerebral palsy, alzheimers, paraplegia, etc. It's very rewarding to give these disadvantaged people part of their life back, give them some independence. I'm not only lucky to have a job in a recession proof industry and enjoy it, but being in this field has opened my eyes quite a bit to life in general. The entire experience from closing down my business and moving on to patient care has been incredibly eye opening on so many levels. I will be able to sit for my Assistive Technologies Practitioner exam in 6 months and I'm really excited to achieve that and learn more what I can do for these patients.
Life is funny sometimes, ya never know what kind of ball it's going to throw you. The best advice is to keep swinging.
Just noticed this thread too. The economic conditions caught up to me as well.
I owned my own business for the past 5 years. Aside from rehabbing and selling 4 houses the past 5 years on the side, I also had a showroom and a kitchen design business. I would meet with contractors, consult on blueprints and then do the design work for kitchen layouts. Once that was completed, I then sold all the materials that went into the kitchen to the contractor or the end user. It was a pretty good business and I especially enjoyed the design work. Then yep...the housing market finally caught up to me and I had to shut down the business for good in October after several months of no jobs, and sold off most of the displays and materials and then leased the building. The last house i rehabbed for sale I lost money after my time was figued due to the housing prices falling drastically. So, without either of those two business ventures, I wrote up a resume based on my sales history and hit all job listing avenues. The last time I had an interview was in 1997 when i graduated from college, so needless to say I was a bit out of practice, but I took the "I can sell anything" attidude and ran with it. I was hired by a fantastic company in november and I am now working in medical sales again (a career I had for 6 years or so after college) fitting custom mobility solutions to patients with spinal cord injuries, muscular distrophy, cerebral palsy, alzheimers, paraplegia, etc. It's very rewarding to give these disadvantaged people part of their life back, give them some independence. I'm not only lucky to have a job in a recession proof industry and enjoy it, but being in this field has opened my eyes quite a bit to life in general. The entire experience from closing down my business and moving on to patient care has been incredibly eye opening on so many levels. I will be able to sit for my Assistive Technologies Practitioner exam in 6 months and I'm really excited to achieve that and learn more what I can do for these patients.
Life is funny sometimes, ya never know what kind of ball it's going to throw you. The best advice is to keep swinging.
I can burn a whole heap of those on dvd and post them to you. I got 25 free dvds with my printer and I don't use them much. Pm me.
I expected this two months ago and have been saving like crazy - was going to buy Traktor Scratch
about what?
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