Today is not a good day
Wednesday, 19 Oct 2005 | Leaving the Netherlands
After having met mister HR this morning, I’ve spoken to both him and mister senior management a couple of times today. I was trying to work out a scenario which was viable for them, but also for me. And I haven’t been able to do that.
Two options for me right now:
Within the next month, I change my contract to another department. I will become a replacement candidate with a temporary placement on my current project. After that, I’ll have another 3 months of being paid without having to work. Only if after that project I would get a 3 month project which I can do from abroad, would I be able to have 6 months of pay while living abroad - which in turn would give me about a year to look for a new job. Chances of getting that second project are next to none. This means I need to find a job within 5-6 months after having moved to Bangkok. That would be pushing it, I don’t feel comfortable taking this route.
Wait what happens with the reorganisation. I might get lucky and become a replacement candidate anyway for whatever reason. From what mister senior management said, I got that there might be a tiny chance that I will ‘follow my work’ and then don’t get matched to another position once my current project ends. If the case, I would then become a replacement candidate.
What sucks is that if I were to go for the first option, I would have to make that happen within the next couple of weeks. Kinda hard when you’re away on vacation. So I decided to take the other option. Chances of that happening are very slim but at least I don’t lock myself into a certain scenario that will not provide me with the results I require it to do.
So … now what? Well, right now I’m a little sad because it doesn’t seem like my move is viable the way I thought it would be. But I won’t give up that easy. Crazy ideas are running through my head. I need to rethink this thing, discuss it with Arjan, see what comes from my upcoming trip and then hopefully come up with a new strategy.
This, plus I’m getting sick and I have two exhausting days in London ahead of me. Today was not a good day.