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Rollercoaster of a day...

bpenn

At 930 AM I got a call from my boss that I was being laid off (govt contractor) for 2 months with a chance of up to 8 months. We were just about to close on a brand new house we built, too.

Apply for jobs immediately following the call and get an OFFER LETTER within 5 hours, making $5k more than I was.

I don't even know if today is real but I have all these emotions running.

Point of this post, make SURE your resume is always current. I wasted zero time because my resume was ready to go and began tailoring it to specific listings.

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Comments

mikey88

bpenn wrote: »

Point of this post, make SURE your resume is always current.

Ahh, the life of a contractor. Don't forget current certs too. Glad it all worked out for you. Is it time to start hunting that GS job

Onita

Congrats. Always important to keep the resume ready!

scaredoftests

Always have mine ready and polished. Congrats on your new adventure!!

jjones2016

Congrats on the new job!

H-bomb

Wow! Congrats on the new gig! Did you interview?

cyberguypr

If I were you I would go play the lottery ASAP. Glad it worked out OK.

jvrlopez

Stay ready and you don't have to get ready.

I've done government contracting for over 5 years now. I've had 1 experience in line with what you went through (view my started posts from back in the day), but have been fortunate enough to have never missed a day without pay coming in.

volfkhat

if we may ask:

What is your current role/position?

And is it the same job from your earlier thread:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/jobs-degrees/127839-unprofessional-interview.html

Maybe i need to grab a CISSP myself :]

NetworkNewb

That pretty insane. Congrats!

E Double U

Congratulations!

Mike7

Wow. Congrats!

I need to update my resume.

mzx380

Glad to hear everything worked out for you!

coffeeluvr

Congratulations!! Glad it worked out!

NetworkNewb

Lol, I can't imagine going into work one day, expecting nice normal day. And then a few hours later working for a different company and getting a raise.

gespenstern

Most likely not, you probably was seriously undervalued and underpaid at your former job, that explains the speed of getting a new offer and the bump in pay.

bpenn

My previous job title was Systems Administrator but my job role was in design and architecture. We were designing a virtual environment to support 400 users across 7 states. It was a challenging role, no doubt, but I wasn't paid quite enough for what I was actually doing.

The new job title is Senior Systems Engineer and it will be continuing development of a VMware VDI network. Part of my responsibility will be to STIG systems in accordance with JSIG and also deal with some RMF stuff and integrating PKI.

So, I am not really in the design and architect role anymore but I get a commensurate job title with this position that I can update to my resume.

bpenn

volfkhat wrote: »

if we may ask:

What is your current role/position?

And is it the same job from your earlier thread:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/jobs-degrees/127839-unprofessional-interview.html

Maybe i need to grab a CISSP myself :]

You are correct. I actually took the job from that interview and loved it. I really hated that they laid me off but I guess everything happens for a reason.

josephandre

Awesome man. That's huge, congrats on the job, raise and the house!

yoba222

So did you tell the company that laid you off it's over? Or are you going to keep that one in the back pocket, just in case?

LeBroke

Congrats! Usually I hit Tinder if I'm having a hell of a day.