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I had been fired from a job back in the 80's and when they were giving me my "exit interview" the HR flunky brought out a box of kleenex and pushed it across the table to me.
I took the box, shoved it right back and said "All I want is my last damn check so I can get out of here!"
I walked out the door and felt like Scrooge on Christmas morn, where the weight of a stress-filled crappy job was flung away like a dirty towel.
When friends called to ask what had happebned, I explained that in very basic terms "The company had overspent their budget for the year within the first quarter and then the market dropped 500 points and they were scrambling to make up the losses. That meant letting people go (at the drop of a hat).
Flash forward a few years and I hear a great news story about the CEO getting canned for stealing from the company (or something similar) and I laughed out loud because that guy was the VP of our dept when I got canned!
Needless to say that to this day I have NOTHING good to say about this particular investment firm, which is just fine as they are now one of many mismanaged companies just trying to stay alive.
Keep in mind that if you decide to get back into the rat race, you may want to start looking before you NEED to, so that $$ doesn't become a problem.
(I've seen and heard too many stories of people that got an "early" vacation from their companies and waited until they NEEDED the money to start looking for a job, only to find that their search was going to take longer than they can afford.)
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