I’m a mortician, and The Funeral home is cutting back and hiring mortuary students, way cheaper. Since that show on HBO six feet under came out there is a flood of morticians. I enrolled back in college for summer session, and will retrain as an accountant. As far as model railroading,
I have 4 really nice BB locomotives to finish detailing. I only own one Kato, which I saved for for a long time. I love this hobby, and it always makes any s#$ty day better. Thanks for all the support guys
Well, I wont be as poetic as the others about getting laid off. Thats blows. Well, atleast you have a plan. And you have 4 to work on so thats cool. I wish you the best with your travels. Good job path as well, accountants are always needed.
Good luck
John k
Not a good time for you, but things WILL look better as you begin in earnest to do the things that MUST done - begin the job search.
All kinds of “wisdom” on this subject, and I’m no expert. But I’ll tell you this - your hobby is a great relief, so stick with it! Just don’t let it take away from your focus … use it as a “pressure reliever.”
Good luck to you and take to heart some of the responses you have received - really good advice in them. Just keep in mind that “advice” is just that - in the final analysis, YOU make the decisions in YOUR life.
See ya![tup]
There are three upsides I can see in your otherwise unpleasant situation:
- MR makes a great escape
- you’ll have some spare time
- everyone has a backlog - I bet you have plenty to go on with without spending a razoo. I can see redundancy coming. Maybe not this year but it’ll come. I’m too old, experienced and expensive. They’ll work out one day they can replace me with a workaholic young pup and minimise any resulting damage he does. So I reckon I have about 11 years worth of projects on the shelves downstairs, just in case.
Best of luck
Weathering your rolling stock might be an inexpensive way to pass the downtime and still be doing something on your railroad. If you don’t already have the materials on hand, they’re not too spendy and should go a long ways.
The possibility of a future layoff is why I’ve been hording undecs and decals for the past 18 mo., so I’d have something to do that if that pink slip comes.
Good luck with the job search Todd.