Last Wednesday I was notified that my position at Yahoo!7 was being made redundant, effective immediately. It was quite a shock as I had just started a new project which was exciting and was looking forward to a hectic final 2 months of the calendar year. I was expecting to finish the year on a high as this project would have resolved an issue which had been bugging Y!7 for a number of years.
Although a complete shock I have to say I haven't felt too sad about it. There were certainly some aspects of the company that I found incredibly frustrating - I won't go into details suffice to say that its your typical big company stuff. I get the feeling that some folks are surprised that I'm not more bitter about what happened and I think its worth explaining that I worked pretty hard over the 7 years, 9 months and 3 weeks to help build the company to what it is today. It would be simply childish to "undo" all that effort by rubbishing the company over a simple parting of ways. I obviously still have many friends at Yahoo! and I think I will forever be a yahoo at heart so I wish everyone the best. :)
Sunrise @ Freshie
In fact, one of the most pleasant things about the past few days has been the overwhelming support extended to me by yahoos all over the world. I can't thank everyone enough for the general well wishes through to the offers to provide recommendations to, and contacts in other organisations as well as other parts of Yahoo! :D
Yahoo! was my first "real" job which I started before I finished Uni. It caused my 3 year undergrad degree to be dragged out over 7 years. :) I was digging through various Yahoo! paperwork earlier tonight and came across my original offer letter and even reading it today it still gives me a little buzz as I remember how excited I was to receive it all the way back in October 2000. I am really proud to have been a yahoo.
I'd describe my mood as hesitantly excited right now. Opportunities abound but for now I'm going to take a few weeks/months off to toy with some ideas I've had for a while and generally reflect on what I might do next. And yeah, I'll be surfing. :)
