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I think today was just about the worst day of my life. Today, for the first time in my life, I was fired from a job.
This morning I woke up in a hotel room in Dallas. Originally I was supposed to be working at Texas Instruments for half the day, but the guy I was going to work with finished everything the night before. So I decided to cruise down to downtown Dallas, I took some pictures and just wandered around randomly. I started heading to the airport when I got a page from my boss asking me to come into work once I was back in Phoenix.
I got back to Phoenix and went into the office where I was taken into a room with my boss and an HR guy. They told me that they've had to come to a hard decision. They've watched me work and they've talked to my coworkers and they decided that my working habits were not satisfactory. I can understand this, I guess. I'm not the most mechanically inclined person, and that's most of what the job is. I've been doing it for three months, and they just didn't like the progress I was making. Most of the other guys I work with are 'car guys.' They work on their cars, build their own, etc. They have mechanical training, and so a job like this comes easy to them. I just wasn't good enough.
I don't know what I want to do now. I need a new job, but I'm not sure if I want to stay in the semiconductor field or move onto something completely different.
I am going to take some time off though. From work, from the Internet, from most everything. My dad was the first one I called, and he suggested that I take some time off and go back to Hoquiam, spend some time with family and relax, so I'm going to take him up on it. He's flying in tomorrow morning, we're gonna do some sight seeing, finish up some things in town and then we're probably going to drive back to Washington, which is something we originally planned to do last Christmas but got interrupted for health reasons.
I really feel like I need time away to figure out what I want to do with my life, before today, I was content with what I was doing. I may have been slow and struggling, but I thought I'd get it eventually. I was really enjoying the traveling and liked the people I work with. It was a pretty hard hit, I feel like a failure, but I know that I can rebound, I just have to figure out what I want to rebound to.
This morning I woke up in a hotel room in Dallas. Originally I was supposed to be working at Texas Instruments for half the day, but the guy I was going to work with finished everything the night before. So I decided to cruise down to downtown Dallas, I took some pictures and just wandered around randomly. I started heading to the airport when I got a page from my boss asking me to come into work once I was back in Phoenix.
I got back to Phoenix and went into the office where I was taken into a room with my boss and an HR guy. They told me that they've had to come to a hard decision. They've watched me work and they've talked to my coworkers and they decided that my working habits were not satisfactory. I can understand this, I guess. I'm not the most mechanically inclined person, and that's most of what the job is. I've been doing it for three months, and they just didn't like the progress I was making. Most of the other guys I work with are 'car guys.' They work on their cars, build their own, etc. They have mechanical training, and so a job like this comes easy to them. I just wasn't good enough.
I don't know what I want to do now. I need a new job, but I'm not sure if I want to stay in the semiconductor field or move onto something completely different.
I am going to take some time off though. From work, from the Internet, from most everything. My dad was the first one I called, and he suggested that I take some time off and go back to Hoquiam, spend some time with family and relax, so I'm going to take him up on it. He's flying in tomorrow morning, we're gonna do some sight seeing, finish up some things in town and then we're probably going to drive back to Washington, which is something we originally planned to do last Christmas but got interrupted for health reasons.
I really feel like I need time away to figure out what I want to do with my life, before today, I was content with what I was doing. I may have been slow and struggling, but I thought I'd get it eventually. I was really enjoying the traveling and liked the people I work with. It was a pretty hard hit, I feel like a failure, but I know that I can rebound, I just have to figure out what I want to rebound to.
