Laz,
Throughout the eighties and half of the nineties, I worked as a lead purchaser for a large construction company. The money was good and the work was stable. The hours were long, but life was good.
I got married in 1995, and baby number one came a year and a half later. Ten months later, right after we’d bought our first house, the company decided to outsource my whole division.
At that point, I realized there was no such thing as job security, so I chose to take the risk and start my own business. The first couple of years were kinda scary, but we kept plugging and made it work.
That was twenty years ago, and we’re still going strong.
Fact is, the only security there is, is in oneself. If you can get up every day and put the pedal to the metal, you can be your own man.
It may be time to consider it, bro.
You may be right. THREE layoffs in ONE year?
You know what they say in war: If it happens once, it’s a oddball occurance. If it happens twice, it’s a coincidence. If it happens three times, it’s enemy action.
Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Self-Reliance