I know, I know, it's a terrible thing to think, and at the end of the day it will come back to bite me when I return to work in 2012, but it is nice to have the get out clause.
The way things are in my business at the moment, I do sometimes doubt whether I will actually even recognise the place when I return. We will be under new ownership, hopefully the management team will have changed and I have no doubt at all that we will have gone through at least one major restructure.
Question is, will I actually have a job to go back to at all?! I know that legally they are required to offer me my job back, but what if that job no longer exists? Now there's a question.
What would I do?Well, hopefully I would get a nice little pay out, which would buy me some thinking time, but I am tempted to do something quite radical. Yes, I could probably reasonably easily secure a similar role with one of our competitors, but is that what I really want? Wouldn't I rather throw caution to the wind and try something completely new? Work nearer home, perhaps only three days a week, doing something creative in a small company....
STOP STOP STOP
You haven't even gone on maternity leave yet girl, only time will tell where you are going to be in 18 months time and what options you will have.
But hey, is a life without dreams a life worth living?
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This is exactly what happened to me! The beginning of the year was extemely slow as opposed to the previous year and I felt the same, 'won't be my problem for a while.' Until we got news in August, while I was on maternity leave that my job was closing in May. I had always considered my job secure, after all that particular multinational had never made anybody redundant on financial grounds. It wasn't even on financial grounds this time, they just jumped on the bandwagon, cheaper labour elsewhere. So we came to an arrangement, I 'came back' from maternity leave (when they were really just paying me to stay at home) and was finally made redundant in February with a nice little sum to get me some thinking time. X
Ooo, don't get me thinking about it too much. My worry is that I'll wake up one morning and regret not doing something radical! I've always been so conventional. No one has ever been remembered for just doing what everyone expects them to do....
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