The site I work at was recently shut down. 
Oh well - we served each other well for over 30 years! A very nice run. A great job in a great location.
So I have to decide soon whether to take a severance package or stay with my company at another location. Although the severance package is over a year's pay, I hope to stay with the company at the closest location, 95 miles from my house. I really don't want to move.
So now I am looking at a 2 hour commute, or the added expenses of an apartment to crash in on weeknights.
Just typing this makes me wonder why I don't just move to one of the other 10 or so locations throughout the country, or take the package and then do that with other companies. But the company's pay and benefits are very good, and with over 30 years of time with them, I get a lot of vacation and good pay.
Anyway, I need to blog here more than a handful of times per year!
The economy finally caught up with my job. :(
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I truly understand your reluctance to go with the long commute, but before you make a decision to turn that down, try to talk to unemployed people you know IN YOUR FIELD and see how hard a time they may be having. I sometimes think that people who still have jobs have a somewhat distorted perception of how easily they may be able to find work if they lose their job. I don't know what you do, so maybe that's not the case and you could find a job easily, but talking to someone currently in that position would give you a very good sense for what the environment is like.
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