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Jaycee 07:41 am UTC 01/22/09 |
| In reply to: | A good start of 2009 after a horrible 2008 - Wei 04:09 pm UTC 01/18/09 |
| I hope all goes well for you this year Wei. Mine however, so far has been the total opposite. I should have known being sick just befoe Christmas might have been a bad omen of things to come....lol 2008 wasn't too bad for me, very busy but positive in many areas. 2009 is looking really bad and we are only 3 weeks into it. I work in the mining industry in Western Australia and along with much of the hardship being felt with the global economy at the moment, it has hit us pretty hard in the last few months. The company I work for has just lost a project that has kept a lot of us employed for the past 4 to 5 years and had projection of keeping us that way for another 4, but alas as of yesterday it's over like turning off a light bulb. Now there is a fair few hundred Engineers, Designers and Draftspeople looking at unemployment in two weeks time... me included. The feeling in the room right now as I write this, is like your best friend just passed away. Its morbit and horribly quiet. > Since a couple of years I have been running a small > investment company (on the stock market) in Sweden very > successfully. But in September last year I got captured by > the financial crisis. Like a friend said to me: “This > financial crisis has been worse than a divorce – You have > lost half your money but you still have your wife left”. > Even I lost a lot of money. During a period last autumn I > felt very bad and I saw my life end up in ruin. > > To solve this grave situation I decide to try to get a job > to hibernate the crisis. On my fist interview I mentioned > that I was a big fan of Steinman’s music. And although > they didn’t know who Steinman was they were very > interested of it, which surprised me. After that interview > I wrote in my job application that I was a big Steinman > fan, as one of my interests. On every interview after that > they wanted me to explain the music. At some works they > had even made some research in Steinman’s music before > they met me. It was positive to see that they were really > enjoyed when I told them about the music. After two months > desperately job seeking, I miraculously got a good job as > an IT-auditor; just before the job market deteriorated > even more. Sometime you have to be lucky. > > 2008 was a catastrophe, everything went wrong. The only > good thing with 2008 is - that the year is over. 2009 has > the possibilities to become a good year. My crisis is > over. I have begun at my new work, I will soon move to a > new beautiful apartment and my financial situation is > stable again. Now I have the possibility and the strength > to wait for the turnaround on the stock market so my > capital can grow again. An appreciated bonus for 2009 > would be if we get some new Steinman music or a new Dream > Engine show in NY. > | |
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