Losing my job – part I

So I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time, and never got around to it… I graduated from college this past April, and since then moved to a strategy consulting firm in Virginia as an analyst.

I had a nice pay package, the people were nice, and it felt great – being independent, self sufficient, and also just generally enjoying life. Jeannie (My 2 1/2 year + girlfriend) stayed with me for a few months during that time, and it felt really wonderful, actually. You’d think staying together alone in your own apartment would be a really scary commitment or something, but not really… We spent almost everyone day together in college, so this wasn’t too big of a change.

It was actually nice to be able to sleep on a Queen sized bed, instead of squeezing onto a Single. =D And we tried out new recipes together, and went grocery shopping, etc. Even budgeted, which was great fun..

But all good things had to come to and end. I found out around June that I didn’t get my work visa… There was a 30% chance that my application would have been successful, but I wasn’t that lucky… that meant that I had until November before my Visa ran out, along with my job.

It really was the most scary / stressful time in my life. I mean, when I was still in school, it was just a matter of getting either Bs or As. But at the end of the day, you were still a student in that school. Here, I was looking at unemployment.

So I started looking for a new job at another part of the world. And that was hard…