And so is Lindsay. We got the news on Monday and are still trying to absorb it.

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Our company is moving to New Jersey from Seattle, and we have 2 choices: move in September and keep our jobs, or stay and lose our jobs at the end of the year.

I was pretty devastated when I heard. I’ve worked so hard to get where I’m at. I do trade marketing and event planning for a fitness/wellness company. I travel around North America, meeting amazing people, talking about wellness with like minded individuals, and do all the behind the scenes coordination, setup and tear down. I finally have a job I adore, love ALL of my coworkers, and life has thrown an unexpected curve ball here.

I don’t want to live in a Podunk city in NJ. I have a house, husband with a good career and most of my social network here in Seattle. I’m so terrified because I’ve only been doing this career for 6 months. That’s not enough experience to find an equally awesome job. I started at the bottom with this company and paid my dues already. My plan was to do this job as long as possible (5+ years!) It’s going to suck to take a pay cut and take a step down for a company I might not be passionate about.

This news is still so fresh, I haven’t been able to think about any positives here. I’m just selfishly so worried about my future. Lindsay is figuring her situation out too. She’s been an executive assistant/travel coordinator for 3 months with this company and doesn’t want to start over somewhere else too. We don’t want to become servers again!!! We went to college for a reason!

Life is not fair!!! Excuse me on this pity party. P.S. right after I got the news I had to hop a plane to San Diego for an event (where I’m at now), and next week I have an event in Las Vegas. It’s going to be hard pretending like everything’s Kosher… I just want to be with my coworkers and see how everyone else is doing.

-Sara