Laid Off
REDUNDANCY:
It’s not a term I thought i’d ever be associated with, but this week when I came to work, the R bomb was dropped right on top of me.
I work in the media industry in Australia where new technology continues to streamline cheaper and more affordable ways to run businesses.
Really! I should have been more prepaird for the possibility that this could one day happen to me, but from where I’ve been sitting, up in Darwin in my ivory tower I felt immune from it all.
Naive you say, well I will have to agree with you on that one!
After I graduated from university in 2008 i moved back to my home town Darwin. It wasn’t my first choice, I had fallen in love with every thing in Melbourne while i studied there. Unfortunately for me and thousands of other graduates around Australia, the great Global Finacial crisis began to unleash it fury.
The media industry was hit hard, people were being laid off left right and center and businesses were offering few if none entry level positions and cadetships.
Unemployed and broke I made the decision to go home, and wouldn’t you guess it, with in a month I had a job, in Darwin, in the media!
Their was little wonder on my part after having such luck in a new state why it could all possibly come to a screaming halt several years down the track.
But this is where I am today, unemployed and scratching my head about what to do next.
Let me tell you, being made redundant is a tough pill to swallow and this industry can be one hell of a bitch at times,
but if I was to do it all again I wouldn’t change a thing!
A friend of mine told me today not to take it personally, that I had done nothing wrong and proven that I am a very capable hard working journalist.
“Sarah” he told me “it’s just the nature of the industry”!
