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What’s been going on lately in my life?

In: My journey Friday Nov 27,2009

Seems I haven’t updated my blog since a good while, haven’t I? Well, I feel I owe you, my readers a few words about it.

Here it goes:

Last week the company I used to work for just died. Period. The administrators decided that given the difficult economic period we are all facing, the best thing to do is close the company or at least freeze it for the time being. This being said, here’s the unemployment notification and off you go!

Well, honestly I have been expecting this since a while since the new management didn’t show many signs they can put the company where it should have been. I mean, beside Everything is going to be OK and we have trust in the team and we are going to bring contracts, not much happened.

Just for the record, we used to be a team of .NET developers that had a quite high technical specialization, developing over the years programs that were quite complex. Personally I have worked in this company since 2002 and for 6 years I have been part of a research project that was very interesting and complex.

Now, everything is down and dust sets over the whole thing.

As I was saying, I can’t say I was too upset since I was expecting this since a while. I don’t know, you just see it and feel it coming.

The period is not good also, we are right before winter holidays, it is a difficult time to find work, no matter you are looking for a job or for a contract on your own. Which, by the way, it is what I have decided to do.

I have decided to not look for work anymore, the whole thing pissed me off, the company kind of took every bit of energy I had, the whole process of closing the company was a mess and a pitiful thing to do. Not because of the situation itself but for the people involved in the process. Whatever.

So, I have decided to work for myself, to find jobs and to live the dream, my friends!! I have decided to go on my own way, as an entrepreneur and do my own things.

I will keep you posted on this one, I don’t wanna talk much about it for the moment.

From another point of view, my baby girl who just turned 7 months old yesterday suffered a pneumonia (I still wonder why that happened) and I had to put her in the hospital, Ani, my wife stayed with her there and myself too for 2 full days, then I started to also leave for short periods since I had things to do, but generally speaking, 5 days were just lost from all points of view, trying to put our wonderful baby girl on her feet. Hypotetically speaking since she doesn’t yet stand.

So, those being said, not much reasons to blog, is it? But I plan to come back to bloging since I have another reason to do it: we plan to record a few good songs and put them together as an album. There.

We have already spoken to the studio, I will speak again with the guys there on Monday, we are trying to go in the studio somewhere in December to start recording. Most of the songs will be old songs that we will try to record in a trully professional way but we also have some new material.

I will keepp you posted on this one also.

Meanwhile whish me luck and I will keep you posted.

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12 Responses to “What’s been going on lately in my life?”

GuitarDaddy
November 27th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Hey Brother, hate to hear what happened – but love your response and your outlook! Take it from someone who has been on their own for over 5 years… I might miss the steady paycheck, but I don’t miss the BS at the water cooler and others who stab your back on their way up the corporate ladder. Long live free enterprise and self employment!

I wrote a post on my blog a few months ago about the job loss thing: http://tinyurl.com/yfbwgmr. It sucks.

Now take some time to find your direction. Sounds like you are on you way – all the best.

DJ – GuitarDaddy
MG
November 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am

I hope your little girl is feeling better soon! Good luck to you in finding something rewarding and beneficial to you financially also!

I haven’t been doing my blog either. I have been doing videos-just not the blog-I actually may close it. Other people-namely you and a couple other do it so much better, and I just didn’t have the time to do it.
Ovidiu
November 28th, 2009 at 10:00 am

Thanks, guys, I hope I will be doing fine, I already have things to do and my time is limited, my life already busy, which is a good thing
I will go now and read your post, maybe I can get something good out of it

I am in a good mood, I really believe everything will be OK, I have only open spaces in front of me, so that’s a good thing.

Alesia, my baby girl is doing fine now, she’s fixed, already got her voice back and lets us know about it all day long

MG, why close your blog? Personally I find joy in blogging, when I find time to do it. You have your own way and voice, go on with it!
Marko
November 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Hey Ovidiu,

Glad to hear that your daughter is doing better – that’s the most important thing.

I hope you don’t get this the wrong way, but this company closing could be the best thing happening to you. As GuitarDaddy put it, “Long live free enterprise and self-employment!”

Welcome to the club.
Ovidiu
December 1st, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Marko, I am quite happy this ended this way since I never found the guts to leave it and work for myself, I have now the perfect opportunity!
Cheap Guitars
December 4th, 2009 at 12:02 am

Best of luck to you Ovidiu on any path you decide to take.

Very happy to here your daughter is better, there is nothing more precious than children.

You are a smart fellow and I know all is going to work out to your benefit.

Wishing the best for you and your family,
Kirk
Ovidiu
December 4th, 2009 at 12:13 am

Thanks, Kirk,
My daughter is OK and my life also OK, I am confident everything will be fine!
guitar speed
December 10th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

I got the impression that you did something .NET related but I didn’t know that it was that interesting. Sorry to hear about the change of plans, BUT I think you will be better off, and I get the impression that you are pretty good at pushing forward.

Keep your wits about you, use your knowledge – I have total confidence that life will be good to you. Just look at your daughter for inspiration

You’ve got an awesome life!! life is awesome!! hardships are temporary in the face of things. Its interesting, a lot of people are getting pushed out of their jobs and don’t seem to care because they are tired of it and want to create something for themselves.

Here is your opportunity – best of luck my friend!!
Ovidiu
December 10th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Thanks, man, so far everything is working well and I do have the feeling it will be better and better, just that for the moment I need to get over these months of winter since nothing seems to work in this part of the year. For the rest, well, I am sure I will be OK
Chaz
December 15th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

I know the feeling bro, I live in Michigan (United States) and we’ve been hit pretty hard too as Michigan is the (dying) Automotive state. Times are tough but all we can do is keep pushing forward. I wish you the best man and thanks for the update. Things will get better!
Felix
January 10th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Any improvements at the horizon yet?
Ovidiu
January 10th, 2010 at 10:25 pm

Well, yes, please allow me a few more days and I will let you know more about how things are going

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