My workday as a senior investigator for a Fortune 100 company
started like any other on a beautiful May in 2016. I was excited about the new
direction my unit was going in after attending a multiregional meeting to meet
our new director and hear about his vision for our business unit. I was very
productive that morning. Answering emails, writing reports, completing investigations.
Shortly after lunch, I received an urgent email with a mandatory
calendar appointment to take place in an hour. I looked at all of the attendees
and noticed many of my peers, managers, and someone from human resources. Little
did I know that outlook notification chime change the direction of my career
forever.
“We appreciate everything you have done for the organization,
your years of service, the quality of your work, but the business unit is
taking a new direction. Your position has been eliminated.” I was shocked. Dumbfounded.
No words came to mind. There was nothing any of us could say.
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Two weeks prior I had to attend a cheering party about how great
everyone was and how our department was a leader in industry. Now fifty senior investigators
were being eliminated and I was one of them.
I had been through many reorganizations within my company,
but I always thought it would never happen to be. Well, it did. Now what? I went
walk to think about the news. As I sat on a bench by a river, I heard a small
voice say, “Wait and pray”.
After spending seventeen years investigating insurance
claims and twenty-two years of conducting investigations, I was at a crossroads. I
took the much-traveled road and I spend eight months conducting a job search,
applying for roles, going on interviews with no job offers. After receiving the
last rejection noticed, I stopped, looked around, and thought “what do I really
want to do?” I then turned around and walk backed to that crossroad to go down
the unknown road.
I had a side business of a restaurant and wanted to serve my
customers and employees more than I was. As I reflected on how I could do this,
I started looking online for marketing programs. I knew what I knew, but I was interested
in what I didn’t know and needed to find resources that could teach me. That
road led me to Chippewa Valley Technical College.
One day walking to class, I heard that small voice say,
“give Me two years” and I said okay. Not sure what I was saying okay for, but I
thought I could do anything for two years. What I would not know how much would
have changed in those two years.
In addition to marketing, I enrolled in the digital
marketing program at CVTC, closed and sold my side business, ended a large
scale annual charity fundraising event, and am about to graduate with two
associates of applied science degrees and two certifications in social media.
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I now am about to embark on a new journey. I am so grateful
for the opportunities I have received since that fateful day. I now enter this
next stage with hope and expectation that something good is going to happen to
me.
Has this ever happened to you? Please share or comment to
tell me your story.
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