Economy Caught Me - Job Ending 12/31
Well, it finally happened. I was informed last Tuesday that my job is ending on 12/31. "Happy Holidays" turned into "Bah, humbug".
The company I worked for was purchased by a foreign-owned worldwide corporation 3 years ago and they've been purging the original employees through various layoffs over the years. Outsourcing the manufacturing we used to do until all is left of my product is final assembly and some calibration work on existing systems.
I've been with the product for over 7 years and was originally part of a 5-person team worldwide responsible for sales of a specialty aviation-market product that's been the best-respected product in the market since it was first developed over 50 years ago. For the past 2 years I've been the only salesperson responsible for worldwide sales.
Funny thing is that now my boss has to assume those responsibilities and he doesn't have much of a clue on the product or what I did to market the product.
It's such a specialty item that there are only 3 manufacturers in the world.
Both my wife and I are SoCal natives so we're hopeful my 20+ years in aerospace/aviation item sales will turn up something here.
Oh well, at least I have a paycheck until the end of the year.
