On Monday I was asked to leave the company I have been working at since August 2010. This job took me 1,000 miles away from everyone a knew, but it was too good to pass up. I will still have my job for about another two weeks to wrap everything up but that's not much time to find a new job, or so I thought.

Monday night I sat down with a friend and updated my resume. I posted it to Monster.com late Monday night and I've gotten several phone calls since then about possible positions locally. Most of the contacts have been through recruiting firms but I seem to have passed their pre screening and they are sending my resume and information on.

Even though I am losing my job I can't help but feel that I will make it through this. The amount of attention my resume has gotten in the past two days has amazed me and I'm starting to worry a little less that I'm going to have to sell my collection (my backup plan). I won't find a job that pays as well as my currently one, but I could get to work with newer technology (I'm a computer programmer), so I think I will be happier in the end.

This is probably a bit much to share on an internet forum, but the past few days have been a series of extreme ups and downs and I just needed to share for some reason.