Monday, May 11, 2009

Laid Off: My New Career Opportunity...


June 30 - poof, out the door after 21 years with the City of Santa Barbara's Parks and Recreation Department. I posted this article at my bi-weekly Edhat.com column. What floors me is the response from my community. I'm having a Sally Field moment: "You like me! You REALLY like me!"

One door closes and a whole bunch more open. Read on for recipes on making lemons into lemon sorbet.

7 comments:

Monica the Garden Faerie said...

LOL, Sally Field may feel differently until you delete the "s" from her last name! :-) Happy New Phase of Your Life!

Dee/reddirtramblings said...

Ah Billy, I'm sorry to hear this, but after reading your links, I see you've got a lot of new opportunities. Hang in there in the transition. Congrats on the Fine Gardening gig.~~Dee

Claude said...

Way cool...

and I'll be able to say, "Yeah, I left smart-ass comments on his blog before he was famous..."

Good job.

Skrip said...

One of the 1st people to help me along in the blogging world when I got LAID OFF... Thanks so much for your help and quick intro into the blogging world. Also your great words of wisdom from the Garden world are always inspiring.

I know that you will be fine, so the best of luck in whatever you do! It's the scary and fun feeling! I had it for 6 months... now I hate my new job.

danger garden said...

I wish you the best. I work in architecture firm, we've gone from 305 to 154 employees. I am sick of seeing good people let go. It's not the companies fault. They are doing everything possible to keep afloat. Things have got to turn around. I am glad to read you have some irons in the fire, so to speak. Keep being a smart @$$!

dinzie said...

Sorry to hear about your being laid off ... Found out this week that my job role no longer exists as well ....

Good luck with your new opportunities :O)

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VW said...

Hey, sorry for the job loss. Best wishes for an even better career ahead.