To Write or Not To Write is still the Question!

Well I am still not 100% sure what I am going to do about this blog but I want to fill everyone in on my job situation. As I mentioned in the last post I was recently laid off after coming back from a 4 1/2 month long trip doing missions work in Africa. At first I was disappointed and upset but after having some time to think about it, I realize that it is a blessing. I had not been happy with my job for a long time and wanted to quit anyway. With the economy like it is I was afraid to quit, I always thought any job was better than no job. The problem with that way of thinking is that it is just plain not true. Now that I am unemployed I can see that I was wrong, I can now look for a job that I will enjoy. It might not be easy but some times you have to work hard for the things that you enjoy. Some one thought that I was really down in the dumps after reading the last post and I just want to ensure all of you who read this that I am not. I am looking forward to what adventure God has in store for me at this time. Hopefully it will involve photography.

Photoman

To Write or Not To Write, That is the Question!

Well I guess it (the title) isn't really a question it just sounded like a good title. It has been a long while since I made a real blog post on this blog. I have been doing a lot of traveling over the past 5 or 6 months and while doing so I have been keeping another blog. If you would like to see where my family and I have been and why please feel free to check out this blog http://empoweringghana.blogspot.com. Anyway this will help you understand why I have not given much attention to this blog lately. I must confess that when I started this blog it was just for fun and I had no real intention of doing much with it. After a while I decided that I wanted to try and do a daily blog, so I started writing and posting photos to this blog on a daily basis. Well this took much of my time and often I didn't really know what to talk about so some of the posts were (in my opinion) lame. I decided that since the blog was taking so much time to just do it on a weekly basis. As you can see that has not worked to well, not doing it daily it became very easy to forget to do it and my blog has fizzled out. I really enjoyed the blog and I am thinking about doing it again on a daily basis but am still not sure if I am up to it. Tonight however I just felt like writing so I decided to write a post, unfortunately there will not be a photo to accompany this post. If you go to my other blog that I mentioned you will see that I have been in Africa doing some missions work, that is all I will say about it if you want to see more and learn more you will have to visit http://empoweringghana.blogspot.com. Anyway we had to leave Africa about 6 weeks earlier that we had planned. When I got home I asked when I could start back and was told anytime I wanted but if I came back earlier than I had planned, everyone in my department would have to take time off unpaid to make up the difference of my salary for those 6 weeks. So not to hurt everyone else I decided to try and stay off as much of the time that I could. When a friend of mine found out I was home he said I could go to Florida and stay in his condo on Siesta Key, his treat. Well I was off work and I had promised my son that I would try and take him to the beach when I got home so I said okay. We left on Saturday, on Friday I got a call from work telling me I no longer had a job. I was also told that since I was still on leave I did not qualify for the severance package that they were offering to the employees that were being laid off. What a way to treat a person, the people who told me I could come back whenever I wanted were the same ones who told me that it would hurt everyone in my department, they were also the same ones who called me two weeks later to tell me I no longer had a job. It makes a person wonder if they knew then they were going to lay me off and was their way of tricking me into staying on my leave of absence so they wouldn't have to give me my severance pay. Well I don't want to dwell on this any longer so I am going to close this post.

Photoman