Upward and onward.

Time to look busy...

After only a short eight month stint, my position at the company I work for was terminated on Thursday. Unfortunately, the current economic situation has taken a profound toll on the consumer summer-camp business - particularly those at the high price point we have been offering.

While the timing managed to catch me a bit off guard, it wasn’t really unexpected. All year, we had been tracking at about one third of our normal revenues. When we began a second round of program-cuts in the last week and a half, I knew that my time with the company was going to be short-lived.

In terms of how I feel about the whole thing, I’m actually feeling quite good. In all the time I spent at this company, one thing I never felt like was a cog. People cared what our department thought, and I had the opportunity to dabble in business development. (I’m still very hopeful that one of my program ideas will take flight next summer.) It would have been nice to stay, but I’m more happy to have had the opportunity in the first place.

The one thing that makes me a little bit sad, though, is the transition that the company is in the process of making. The reason I initially applied for the job was because I believed the company was primarily involved in e-learning. I didn’t realize, literally until my first day at work, how heavily summer camp focused we were. Now, with the summer camp business in atrophy, a sudden shift is being made in the company’s priorities. They are becoming the company that I had truly wanted to work for while I’m on my way out the door.

Anyway, my outlook is extremely positive. Opportunity abounds and I think I can only go up from here.