Wow it has been five years!
It dawned on me today that it's been five years since I was unceremoniously shunted from the halls of Movie Central. Those who know me know the details that followed, both good and bad. But the larger point is that if I hadn't gotten a metaphorical ass-booting at that time, there's a good chance I'd still be in Edmonton, working at a television station and miserable beyond words.
In the last five years, I've been to Japan twice and Thailand once, gone to school again, ridden the Vancouver real-estate market's strange wave upward, been a newspaper reporter in small towns in Alberta and British Columbia, returned to Vancouver, made new friends, worked at a trade paper, moved into PR and taken pictures of Cylons. And I met a wonderful woman who's just about the funniest, coolest, and ladynerdiest catch ever.
And, partly because of this blog, I actually became a professional writer. None of this would have happened if TV hadn't chewed me up and spit me out. Recently my coworkers felt the icy sting of the unemployment boot, as the entire station packed up and headed to Toronto. I can only hope they see this development not as a setback, but a blessing. It sure worked out that way for me.
Wow it has been five years!
Now, you came back later on to extract some money from them, didn't you? Or was that December 11, as well?
I'm looking forward to my post-Corus life. Although this supposedly hot Alberta job market has yet to gobble me up, and Tim Horton's and Superstore just do not hold the appeal.
I guess it's also the place our departing HR Director's husband worked at and now oddly enough they too are moving too Vancouver.
Nope, that was later on, about August, 2002. Victory was sweet. :)
And yes, post-Corus life has its share of ups and downs, but it beats string at "Pig City" or "Caillou" at 3 a.m., wondering how best to shove your head in the Flexicart to end the dull throb of encroaching retardation. :)
Well good to have lots of time and money for those goat related hobbies
This is the first time in my adult life I've been unemployed and I must say it kicks mighty, mighty ass.
Can't wait to get back to school! TV was a soul-sucking endeavor I shall not soon miss.
FreyBaby, party on Jan 13! Give us a holler...
I won't be in town...but I am in town from the 22nd to the 26th. What's available in that window for everybody My lunch on Saturday is taken up, as is dinner on Saturday with the folks.
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