Meanwhile, I dont want to break up the spirit, but I'm afraid that posting in this thread must have messed up my personal mojo, as it turns out that your kind of problem (very roughly categorised) can apparently be acutely contagious.
You know how I raved about how brilliantly - ok, how fairly well - it's worked out for my marvellous boss to keep directing our small team even now she's moved back? Well, one thing I didnt mention, because it would have muddied up my point and was irrelevant to it, is that she did turn in her resignation a few months ago (though of course she'd keep on working till a replacement/solution was found). It wasnt that working from England didnt work out or caused problems, it was something else (that I wont go into here) that made her give up, to our great sadness.
Anyway, because of that (a new person like her is very hard to find, and a program stands or falls with its director), and because one of the two new projects we would be working on this year was first cancelled, then approved after all, but without specification yet of who would carry it out, we have been in some uncertainty about our future - it looked very bleak back in January.
But since then, with our other big project not just fully budgeted and approved, but already in advanced state of preparation (we went to London twice in the last two months - well, me once - to establish the methodology); with that second new project at least approved in principle; and with a third still scheduled to take the rest of the year, we all believed we were safe for 2007, and had a fair chance for the year(s) after.
Well, today bomb shell news from on high was that our program will be dissolved, and the projects we are doing now split up and divvied up among other programs. There is no news, and no certainty whatsoever, what this will mean for us. We could be out of work by the end of the year. We could be out of work in a few months' time. We could be split up as a team and reassigned to other programs in the building - or in other places (eg London).
Like you, I love my job - it is absolutely the single perfect job I could have. I like the work a lot, its exactly in my corner, a combination of tasks and topics written for me - I love the team, we must be the most tight and joyful team in the building, I love my boss, love the flexible working arrangements - and of course I adore living in this city, being at home here.
Vice versa, I havent got the faintest clue where I'd even start looking for another job. I dont have a marketable profession - I know a little about this and a little about that and a little about such-and-so, and this job happens to require exactly that combination and that's why I landed it. But if I'd have to compete in any of those individual fields, I wouldnt stand a chance. I dont want to go to London, and I most definitely dont want to go back home. Ive made two friends here that are better than any friend I had at home and a bunch of acquaintances. But I dont speak Hungarian (beyond the basic pub-conversation level) so work opportunities here are very limited - etc etc etc.
So this sucks monumentally.
Unfortunately, nobody can write letters for me.. we just have to wait and see. I hate wait-and-seeing. We should know more in about three weeks' time. Perhaps.
Anyway, thats enough disturbance for your thread. In the meantime, everyone help Dag - at least one of us should end up lucky!
