one door closes, another door opens.....
Or so they tell me.
I've been meaning to resurrect the old "blog" for quite some time. A lot has happened, and of course, in the grand scheme of things, nothing has happened.
I'm still here, you're still there.... even if you're not.
There isn't an easy way to re-start something like this. For enough time, I used this space for getting things off my chest, for pouring my thoughts out of my head and onto the screen. It WAS cathartic. I am sure in the future it will, again, provide some comfort and joy to me, but not today.
Let's just get this thing back on track.
I recently lost my job.
Not through any fault of my own, just because business is business. What used to be a "family business" model was acquired, and although they took the "family" bit out of it, they were quite touchy-feely for a while.... and then it was acquired again, and it was reduced to the more formal "business" aspect, and the owner(s) were not good business-people.
They drove it into the ground.
We all saw it coming, but the thing that made us believe in the "family business" model gave us a weird sense of "community" and the belief that, having built it once, we could rebuild it again......
I don't think we ever had a chance. The real competitor was within, and when you can shed your debts and keep buying your own business(es) back for a song, then you're gonna keep on doing that.
They don't see people.
It's too much to unpack. It would make very boring reading. Perhaps over the coming days/weeks i'll eventually start to explore some of the smaller eddies that are all playing out this year, and perhaps you'll be here to read about it..... or not.
Welcome back.... ish?
