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Hey š¦!
Just wanted to do a little check in on you. You okay? I really hope all is well (as possible all things considered) with you.
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Youāre so sweet! The job market is abysmal š¤£š¤£ but in the meantime Iām busy with the full time momming and getting through some big home improvement projects weāve wanted to do for years, so all is good! Weāre really working on baby napping by herself now which hopefully means Iāll get some time back to write soon too. She turns a year old this week!! And I miss writing and chatting with yall so much š„° I canāt believe itās been two months since I was laid off, the time has FLOWN BY . Iāve done a little note sketching for my stories and read some books so thatās all good progress back to myself but seriously I am still so busy, how was I surviving while also working a full time job???? No wonder I felt like I was NOT survivingā¦
Anything good up with you?
Foxy, howās the job hunt going? I hope you can at least enjoy your stay-at-home mom time a little bit, even though job hunting is so stressful š„
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh not great haha. I haven't really pulled out the stops with my network connections yet because I've been kind of interested in changing industries (and very burnt out from my current industry) so I'm not out of hope yet but it's definitely demoralizing. Especially since my field is overrun with AI requirements for positions and I do not want to do that. š
BUT yes I am enjoying my time š„° It's such a perfect time to get days with my daughter and afternoons picking my sons up from school and playing outside as the weather gets nice. I'm definitely making the most of it!
plsss idc how long it takes but don't abandon over the falls, i need to know how the story endsš„ŗ
<3 <3 <3 I don't expect to have abandoend any of my stories!! Can't believe my excuse before was my job and now my excuse is not having a job. (Ok, technically it's the baby and finding a new job). But I hope to be back at it! I still think about those two especially as we get closer to summer!
Rolling circles down my hallway because I want to write fic and canāt write fic. It used to be because of job taking all my time, so why is it now NO JOB taking all my time??? I need a very quiet keyboard I can hold in my lap behind a sleep baby. Itās funny though because I started writing fic on my phone while my old baby slept and now here we are againā¦ maybe I can make dabbles work again that wayā¦. Off to see whatās waiting in my inbox still after all this time!
Oh no, š¦!
I hope, like everyone else has said, that this works out for the best in the end. It's definitely not easy to go through layoffs, and with things the way they are right now, it feels like (and is) a huge loss of security.
May you and your family get the best possible outcome from this!
I wish I had 100K lying around to pay you to write to your heart's content any stories of your choosing, like even a non-fanfic one! Maybe when I'm rich and famous...
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Itās definitely not ideal. Iām grateful I have a few months of severance but given that my husband could also get laid off at any point (I was the one we thought was more stable!) I am trying to balance rest and joy with the truth it wonāt really feel restful until I have a new job in place. It would be really great to find something by end of summer so we donāt have to pay for summer childcare but then I start when kids go to school! š¤ although weāll see if I make it that long with my sanity haha, already Iām having such a hard time getting anything ādoneā with the baby all day and all kids after school. Stay at home parenting is so challenging š š
Foxy chingu, so sorry to hear about the layoff. Itās so unsettling when it actually happens to YOU, ugh. It can feel like a big shift in your self identity. I must say that those guys have been overloading you for years, and now they will definitely struggle without youā¦ which serves them right!
Just take a breath and a take a beat for yourself. The next steps will unfold for you just as they are supposed to in good time.
This is so sweet and what Iām holding hope for. It was hard to step back at first but now I feel like I can unclench and breathe! Iām slowly starting to apply to things with the goal of a new job by end of summer, and Iām thinking itās maybe time to try self publishing tooā¦ even with a new job, Iām hoping to find something less aggressive so I can still write. That job was draining my life, so whatās the point?? (It was the health insurance š )
Applying for jobs for the first time in 14 years is sooooo weird!
I miss Sasha and JK š„¹
Me toooooooo
Soon I hope āŗļø
Hi Foxy, this may sound like a presumptuous question so please forgive me. If, and only if, you pick up your pen angain and continue your stories - which one do you think youāll resume first? I ask because I keep re reading all your in-progress stories and I want to be as up to date in remembering where we left off - for that day lucky you post something again.
š„°š„°š„° I change my mind every day haha. I have an Amended little Drabble I am hoping to work on very soon and after that I think either Sasha or To Kill a Kingā¦.
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i just love him š©¶
just came in to check in after a while cause i felt nostalgic and was missing everything a bit more and it sucks that that happened!!! hoping everything works out for you and ur family is able to live stress free, rooting for u n sending u love !!! ā¤ļøā¤ļø
Iām feeling nostalgic too! Iām hoping Iāll be able to get some writing time in in between applying for jobs and taking care of my kiddos š„°š„° starting with an amended Drabble thatās been on my mind for a while, then finishing up my Patreon short story and my chapter storiesā¦ I want to!
damn that fucking sucks. i truly hope you get a better job sometime soon (with even better health benefits). Seems cruel that you got laid off when you had just had a baby.
The number of parents this baby has seen laid off in her almost-10-months of life is TWO. š My husband was laid off the day he got back from paternity leave last June. When I told my older kids last night so they wouln't overheard and get worried, my older son said "I'm not worried, this has happened like three times."
The video games industry is rough, y'all. mamas don't let your babies grow up to be game makers.
welcome to the club, girl lol. but iām really sorry that happened to you, no matter what. i got laid off before christmas last year and just started a new job this feb. tbh, that period of resting and living off severance was honestly so mentally healthy for meā¦but in this economy, itās super hard to keep doing that for longš„¹
yet i lowkey wanna quit because, damn, i donāt want to stay stuck in this work-life loop where youāre constantly anxious about getting laid off again and again lolll.
wishing you a fresh start very soon or if you just want to rest and take your time, thatās totally fine too. š«¶š¤
Yeah, i'm absolutely in that headspace right now haha. on one hand, i am weary. Because a colleague quit while I was on maternity leave last year, I had been doing multiple roles for hte last six months while trying to adjust to working with 3 kids at home, etc etc. I want a moment to catch my breath and really think about what I want to do next! I had been employed by this company for 14 YEARS (and 2 years as an intern before that). I did get a severence package, and because I work in an industry with constant layoffs, I had always been saving to cover a period of no work. We also do save on childcare by having me home with the kids (although not as much as I make working)
However. The economy. The world. A mortgage and kids. We'll be losing my health insurance and my husband's is trash, so we will be a medical emergency away from catastrophe, you know? Not having active income won't be restful. We were finally not living paycheck to paycheck and I don't want to go back to that. And who knows, given the volume of layoffs in my industry, it could take me that time or longer to find a new gig! Or it might be a paycut, etc etc
I genuinely don't know how family's do it with one parent staying home. I made more than my husband, but even if it was reversed, I don't know how familiies survive on single income.
I hope your new job settles in and you're able to find a sustainable work-ilfe balance with it! That's the best any of us can hope for, I think
Iām so sorry that happened š but you know what? A better door will open! I truly believe thatšā¤ļø
I think and hope so too! I had been considering leaving for a while but had decided to tough it out for the time being given the state of the worldā¦ and economyā¦ and all that. But I have seen folks time after time move into better things after layoffs force the change, so Iām optimistic!
Ya girl got laid off today!! āļøš
Does this mean I will have a little more time and can dig out of tumblr hole ?? Or less time as I look for jobs! Only time will tellā¦
Anyone want to buy one of my books for $100k? š
