News on the job front. Maybe good news? It appears that I'm not going to be laid off any time soon. Later this year, I am going to transition to a new role - essentially working on a task force that assists on different projects as and when required. This is what I wanted, so I should be happy. Especially as this should give me a degree of job security I didn't have before. But for some reason I am very apprehensive. In light of how I am not coping particularly well when my current workload is intense, I am worried that this new role might be even more demanding and stressful. I'm going to have a new manager (actually my current manager's manager) who I don't know well, and who doesn't know me well. And, if I'm going to be honest, I think I wanted to be laid off (and take what should be some decent severance pay). I'm about to turn 50 - I want to take a sabbatical, I want to enjoy my life for a bit on my own terms, and I especially could do with an extended length of time without the weight of work on my shoulders. I have a couple of friends on both sides of the Atlantic who are between jobs, and I'm extremely jealous. But so be it. I'll give the new role a shot, and see how it goes. If I don't enjoy it, then perhaps I'll just leave on my own terms rather than get laid off. Or at least ask for a leave of absence. But change is good, and I needed something like this to keep me going because I am not happy with my current work situation.
