Zen and the art of Pipe Dreaming
So for those of you who haven’t heard the company I work for has been sold and I may or may not have a job when I land back on T’Eire Firma.
It sucks hearing about it on holiday but at least I have a heads up this time so can arrive in prepared on Monday morning, as opposed to the last time this happened and I turned on my phone in the Dublin arrivals hall to a flurry of increasingly panicked messages.
According to my source everything is going to be done and dusted in 2 weeks time. Our office will shut down and those who are the ‘chosen’ ones will be moving out to the new owners premises.
I feel surprisingly calm. Although I am utterly fed up with this industry. At the age of thirty mumble I would expect to have a career that didn’t involve bouncing from company to company and wondering how long it’s going to last. Saying that I know a girl who was made redundant from SEVEN jobs in a row. Miranda, where are you now?
IT is a pipe dream, in Dublin anyway. They told us we’d be millionaires, that stock options would actually be WORTH something. Do you know how many companies I’ve worked for where my options have lapsed into negative numbers? Don’t answer, it’s rhetorical. But apparently this decade’s big thing is the Pharmaceutical industry. All the kids are studying in that field and coming out making a fortune in the companies that have invested in Dublin. They’ll get about 7 or 8 years out of it before the companies pull out and move to India or somewhere similar.
Sorry this entry is a bit muddled. I meant to write something a bit more legible but my head isn’t really in it. Must go, gotta fly!
jaysus eli, history repeating itself. what a crapper
Comment by ronan — July 14, 2006 @ 8:53 pm