It has been quite some time since I last updated this site. This is due to the roller coaster that 2010 has turned out to be as a year so far.
Back in February, I got some terrible news at work. The company I was working for had made the decision that in November 2010 they were going to move from Massachusetts to Florida. I made a brief assessment of my financial situation and took into account that I’d be moving away from my family and friends and promptly rejected their offer to me to move. I did so figuring that I’d have until November to find a job.
A week later, I received a call from the COO that I would be laid off in June.
That put the quest for a new job into the fast lane! I had already started looking anyhow, but now I really had to accelerate things. The situation with the economy wasn’t helping very much and there wasn’t much in my field of work available.
Fortune did smile upon me and after applying at a number of companies, I finally got a call from a prestigious lab for an interview. Just before I was to be laid off, I was hired at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and am happily settled in now.
The effect all this had on my haunt activities was that it put my haunt in jeopardy. Unsure of my employment situation meant at best I would just set up everything from last year again with no new additions and at worst I wouldn’t be able to set up at all.
With three months left to go now I will be working to re-hab some older, decrepit props and complete a few unfinished ideas from recent years. There won’t be much in the line of new items this year but I’m just happy to be haunting at all.
