Plan for other options

I am attending a meeting today with the rest of my department for the whole morning until lunch. In the afternoon, my department will have a coffee break with the management team for an informal discussion. It will be an eventful day. My mind went in overdrive again when one of my customers joked with me that I will be sent back to my homeland. This sent my imagination working again and I was thinking that he heard something about my fate from somebody maybe Philip. I think that is the main problem with paranoia: that everyone seems to know a secret about my fate except me.

Perhaps this line of thinking started again in overdrive when I saw the gossip brigade meeting together in-groups today and talking in whispers. This always happens when something is afoot or some mischief is being planned. My friend KG noticed the same thing and mentioned it to me yesterday. We think we found out the reason, which is that our floor is moving up into the top floor after the people who were retrenched leave the company in the coming months. So our floor will be vacated and we will be moving up together with the boss man’s company.

I saw one of my old supervisors (who are part of the gossip brigade) in the boss man’s office yesterday afternoon with my nemesis and Philip. My paranoia thought that some conspiracy is planned against me which kick started my imagination. But after discussion with KG, we both agreed that it is about the impending move of our offices to another floor. I think that after this month most of our fears will be settled after these series of informal meeting with management. I think I am ready for any eventuality.

Last night I attended a talk on casino management. They say this will be the hot thing in the coming years. A few weeks back I attended a talk as well about wealth management while the night before I went to a seminar on nature photography. I am attending all sorts of things to widen my horizon and I want to be ready for any career shift. But the professor who talked last night mentioned that 5 titles are hotly required in the world today and I have 2 of them: MBA and PMP. Another one is CFP, which is a certified financial planner. If I get myself certified then I have a good chance of having wider options in case I get retrenched.