Our company just announced that they will be reducing overhead cost by almost a billion dollars annually and begin to focus on emerging markets (Latin and South American, Far East and Eastern Europe). I've already recognized that this was likely to take place and have began the process to move to a more self reliant career. There will be a transition time as the sideline becomes less an advocation and more of a vocation. I'm stuck with the perplexing thought of whether to volunteer to be cut free and have my feet held to the fire to perform on my own OR hope to be kept on and be even more tied to the job and have less chance to nurture the new vocation. That has been really weighing on me.
That's in addition to having lost a long time (27 years) job just a few years ago, having a wife of 25 years who I was hopelessly in love with say she no longer wants to be together and the subsequent termination of the marriage at the same time as the job loss, a new job, then new ownership and a remarriage. All within the past 3 years. All of the usual stress factors coliding in one short span.