The Jobs Halfway House

If you're keeping score at home, I'm technically not unemployed right now. I got hired for a two month contract by my previous employer. So, not exactly employed full-time, but working full-time for two months. Of course, some people do that forever, going from one contract to another. Two things make that untenable for me: being a true contractor (i.e., not the ones employed full-time by a consulting firm) means no benefits -- and I need me some group health insurance (although, technically, I don't know if Papa Obama has changed this dependency for me); and contracting is a life of continuously looking for the next job -- just poke my eyes out!

But having that extra two month financial cushion in my current job search is way better than not having it.

Jobs

Jobs just seem to come and go.  See that!  That's mine, going.  Here's a nice summary. The part about "abandon development of its Symphony blood bank donation management software"?  That's the product I've worked on the last 5 and a half years.  And the facility to be closed in Chicago?  Yeah, that's where I worked on it.  The Chicago office was an independent company until only a couple years ago when Haemonetics bought it.  Easy come, easy go.  It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business.