Leave of absence…
Posted by admin on 05 Nov 2004 at 10:53 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So I went to the BIG meeting and was told that my dismissal process had started on Monday. This meeting (on Thursday) was just a formality to let the me know about the department’s decision to dismiss me. Great. Verdict and sentencing before I was even aware there was a problem. I am taking a temporary leave of absence from all things academic until further notice, effective yesterday at noon. I was very unhappy at grad school anyway. This semester my disenchantment with grad school was at its worst. I wasn’t sleeping or eating or even teaching very well. My schoolwork suffered a lot. I need a break, the opportunity presented itself, and so I took one.
I feel slightly giddy. I actually got some sleep! I haven’t been able to sleep in months. This may be a veeerrry dangerous thing.
I applied for a job online Thursday afternoon and was called Friday afternoon for a phone interview. I have a final interview on Monday! I just applied. They said it would take at least a week to hear anything from them. This just affirms my belief in everything happens for a reason and there are no coincidences in life. Yeah me.
Wow! I’ll never complain about communications at my job again…well, I’ll try not to anyway
But like you say, everything always happens for a reason and I for one do not believe that a door is shut without another one opening. Good luck on your new adventures!
I had a friend who went from job to job. This person had the same complaint about each job – "the company does not know what they are doing," or "my manager is wrong," etc.
Being a scientist, let me ask you. When you introduce a new variable to an existing condition, yet the results are the same … is the problem the variables that are introduced … or is it the one thing that was constant with each experiment? I.e. my friend.