Laoffs are coming

I work at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. The hospital is not getting the same number of patients so it looks like some people will need to be laid off. This has gotten me thinking about a number of things so I wanted to take a minute and jot them down.

The first is that even though I definitely need to keep my job I don't want someone else to lose theirs. It is a weird feeling knowing that to keep your job a guy you see around work all the time may lose his. I may not know the person that well, but I do know that anyone working the third shift in a hospital needs a job. It isn't like they could retire, but are trying to get out of the house. I'm not a martyr, but if I didn't have kids I would offer my job up to the cost cutters just so I wouldn't feel like I was subconsciously rooting for someone else to get fired.

The other thing that I have been thinking is actually kind of liberating. If I do get laid off I am going on a nation wide job search. This is the chance to break free of the gravity that is Brighton MA and try something else. I have lived my entire life in the same ten square mile area. I love Brighton, but there is a whole big world out there and if I am one of the ones to get laid off I am going to go out and see it.

Hopefully the layoffs will not happen. If they do, however, I am going to look at as an opportunity to expand my horizons.