>Mike
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>Been there! When I was "working for the Man" it was like a cold hand clutching my heart every morning. I'd sit at my desk, reach for the keyboard and the neck and shoulder pains would start. I looked back to what my aspirations had been half my life ago and realised where I was.
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>I accepted redundancy when it was available and it was one of the best moves I made, although I didn't have a job to go to.
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>Anyway best of luck with it all.
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>BTW does this mean you won't be so crabby in the future? :-)
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No! LOL

Who you calling crabby, bogroll?

I am hanging in there. (Apart from waking up at 3 a.m. this morning with my head ablaze with nightmare scenarios). Have some good contacts already and am staying as positive and industrious as I can. I just have to keep faith that this will be relatively brief and will have a happy ending.

The company I left has its own spin on a redundancy program. Basically everyone involved in software development in any way is going to be replaced by a worker in an office near New Delhi. They opened it a year ago, have 50 employees now, and expect to have 200 employees in another year. And the word I was getting from coworkers at corporate HQ in Connecticut is nobody is being offered severance, they are just being replaced. Nice.