A New Day and a HUGE Turning Point

Two weeks ago, I was notified by Cisco that my position was being "eliminated".  I knew it was coming but it was still hard to be called into the office and to listen to the words.  I started at Cisco when I was 29 years old and here I am, for the first time in my life, unemployed.  My emotions have been running very high the last few weeks.  The day they told me, I was past the point of emotional.  I drove off the campus and cried the whole way home and when I pulled up to my house, there was my husband standing in the driveway waiting for me and we're so emotionally attached, he was already crying with me.  It was a day of complete and total disappointment, sadness and devastation.  The following days was sad, then angry.  Angry that I had put in so many years of pure dedication working 50-60 hour weeks and my "elimination" was just so easy.  I left for Ohio the next day and was dreading come home because I knew it was reality time - I wasn't on vacation, I was without a job.

And then, my friend Sarah wrote on my Facebook page, "They already took 12 years of your life. Why give them one more week???" And, I quickly realized how right she was.

We got back from Ohio the following Monday and what has happened since then was past amazing.  After taking a few days to realize that this is my new temporary life, I cleaned out my home office, bought a new laptop, re-organized myself completely and realized that I'm Debbie Quintana - nothing is going to stop me from what I want to do.  It is on.