Canned

Today we were all called into our boss's office for a meeting. She started crying a little and finally told us that she had to let us all go.

There's only 4 of us, and one is actually staying for a while to help out, so basically the small business has turned into a 2 person business. This year we got a few real estate clients that our boss was really excited about (bad timing? probably). She knew they wouldn't pay immediately so we'd have to rely on our other clients for income. Well time after time after time our clients started having money issues. They either couldn't pay us, or they wouldn't pay us, and one even threatened to sue the company for something that happened to them before they were even associated with us. Just dumb. Maybe I've been naive all this time, but I just wasn't aware that business people could sign a contract, make promises, and then just turn on you. So that's the gist of what happened.

I'm not upset actually. I also wasn't completely surprised, although I didn't see it happening today either. We've all heard the complaints about money and crappy client attitudes, etc. I see it as an opportunity to really focus on freelance jobs and Etsy stuff, as I mentioned a couple posts ago. If I can really work hard on my own stuff, maybe I'll make enough money so that we can live off that for a little while. How cool would that be to make money from Etsy when I'm taking care of little kids at home? I'll tell you – super sweet.

So after my 3 hour notice, today was my last day. Is it juvenile to be excited to sleep in on Monday? Our boss said this may be temporary, but this has happened once before (yeah I know) and those people never came back, so...

So I'm trying to make the best of this situation. AJ and I are just really hoping nothing happens with the company he's working for (it's new and has been slow). I never thought our country's economic issues would touch us up here in Logan. Sucks. Oh well, life goes on!