On Monday after two and a half years of working in a desktop support role for an engineering company, I received a call from my boss saying that I was being terminated due to company restructuring and was asked to collect my things and leave immediately. I was the only one in the department that was laid off so I often wonder if there’s something more to my departure, such as performance issues. Now I’m officially unemployed and there’s very little IT work in this part of the country. I did receive a severance package and obtained legal advice for being terminated without cause, and was told by a lawyer that the company was doing everything legally and that there were no guarantees that I would win.
Now I’m wondering what’s next. I’ve been browsing through a list of jobs in this city but all of them require an area of specialization or experience that I don’t have. Moving is an option but I have a house and a mortgage, I just can’t pack up and move. I felt even when I was working that desktop support was a dead end in my career. I have an electrical apprenticeship that I didn’t finish, so maybe it’s time to change careers. If I stay in IT all that will be available to me would be desktop support jobs which at this moment in time I want to get far away from.