Feeling Sad and Worried…

[shootingstar]

Since some of you are gettin' warning signs already..better to be proactive.

I recall a long time ago, I had not updated my resume for 7 years because I was in a job that I loved so much that I would forget to take my allocated vacation.. Then one day I decided to update it..well, completely rewrite it. It took...hrs.. many hrs..because time spent on figuring out skills taken for granted..or more importantly, what we've learned but have taken that for granted also.

The newly rejuvenated resume became handy 3 years later.

Even now, it takes time for me to update resume since it takes time to rewrite certain parts to keep it uh...succinct (short?) every time I get a new job.... now if I stayed with 1 employer for 40 working years, I wouldn't have problems trying to distillate the number of different job experiences that I've had which are all..relevant to the jobs that I choose to apply for.

Note: I have a contract job that ends mid next year. So life isn't that cosy yet. Yes, there's a part that wonders...will I be in the latter part of a milestone year (when I turn 50) and be unemployed? It blows my mind that I know friends my age who will retire in 5 years because they have comfy pensions for being government workers.

Well, there could be worse things..but yes, the thought is difficult enough to wrap around my head even though doing everything else in the job search.