So a couple of months ago, the EVP above my boss’ boss’ retired. And they decided that the corporate archives department needed to be moved somewhere else in the corporate structure, yada yada yada. My boss assured me that she was NOT worried about it and that it would just be an organizational change.
And.....then they decided to reorg us in a completely different part of the company that is located.....IN FUCKING NEW HAMPSHIRE. I have nothing against New Hampshire and visit it quite frequently. But I’ve spent the last eight years making a life for myself in the Boston area and I was not anxious to move. Plus New Hampshire without a car isn’t really doable. Technically I could have taken a bus to South Station and then a bus from South Station to New Hampshire and then...walking roughly 1.2 miles to the new office in New Hampshire?
So yeah, I started losing my shit. I started applying for jobs left and right. I investigated how much severance I would get. I investigated how I would come off if I took the signing bonus to work in New Hampshire and then got a new job after I got all the money.
I interviewed for more than a couple of jobs, but ultimately they decided to reverse the decision and my department was still reorganized but is now under a department that is still located in Boston. So, whew.
But the quick bait-and-switch of a corporate reorganization left me disillusioned not with my job or my coworkers, but with the nature of working for a corporation in general.
So I’ve set career goals for myself that include salary minimums, the level of responsibility I desire and growth in general. I miss the flexible schedule of academia and the benefits of working in and around a college campus.
I applied for two jobs at Harvard and another at BC.
We’ll see where all this goes.
