Most weeks are hard at the moment, with Chris being so busy studying and learning to fly and me working hard to get Your Wish… off the ground. It doesn’t help that we’re trying to live our life on ½ the salary we’re used to thanks to RNZAF!
What makes this one particularly difficult is that the company I work for finally announced that they were going to merge with one of our competitors. It’s been on the cards for a while and to be honest, it was always 99.9% certain it was going to happen. So it’s not as if we didn’t know about it. But, it’s only over the last few days, since Monday, that the division I’m in has been concerned for their jobs.
It’s always been known that certain roles will be duplicated when we merge, but we’ve been told that those roles will come from a different division, as no roles in our division will be duplicated. It’s seeming more likely now though that our division may be canned completely. Which is disastrous news for us, we’re only just getting by now, we’d drown completely just on Chris’ salary.
You see, I was incredibly lucky to get my job as there are very few technology companies in Palmerston North. The RNZAF influenced our decision on where to live in NZ, we had a choice between Palmerston North and Auckland, we chose Palmy because of the lifestyle and because I (fairly easily) got my job.
It will really cause us issues if I have to go work in Wellington (or heaven forbid, further afield!). Your Wish… is nowhere near ready to support us if I give up my day job.
I guess I should start job hunting. I don’t want to, but I fear I may have no choice.
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