New Irresponsible Bass Day

This is a very good bass, having played it at a couple practices now. With the active EQ I can get as much punch or thud or low end as I need, and the neck is sooo smooth to play.

I think I have a new fave bass.
 
@smurfco Sometimes things happen when they're out of your control, and they end up not being as bad as you first think.

A couple years ago, a firm I helped grow from a handful of guys with just a few customers to a very healthy MSP with dozens of of employees cut me and a couple other long time employees after they lost one really large medical client (that wasn't even one of mine). I had just gotten a really good review and a raise the month before.

In order to get a meager severance package, I had to sign something that I wouldn't sue them for age-ism (since I was the oldest, but probably highest paid, member of my team).

It really got in my head that "am I washed up in this field? Am I being replaced by young college hot-shots with no experience that command less money?

I took contractor work below my skill set until I finally launched my own firm. What running my own start-up firm lacked in money-in-my-bank-account made up for in honing some of my organization and leadership skills that were probably dulled from being a part of someone else's firm.

I got my shot at a better paying job with a big corporation a year and a half ago, and am finally back on the kind pay and challenging active work environment that I didn't even believe in myself I could do again. Turned out the old firm was slashing payroll so they could sell the company to someone else and nobody that is still there is happy. I even got another engineer I liked working with hired in at my new office as a coworker.

While it sucked getting through that stage, I'm looking back at how much more fat, bored, and lazy I could have potentially been at the old firm, paying all my bills, renovating my home, and stashing a large percentage of my income into my 401K to make up for those lost years.


BTW, great bass!!!

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baimun said:
@smurfco Sometimes things happen when they're out of your control, and they end up not being as bad as you first think.

A couple years ago, a firm I helped grow from a handful of guys with just a few customers to a very healthy MSP with dozens of of employees cut me and a couple other long time employees after they lost one really large medical client (that wasn't even one of mine). I had just gotten a really good review and a raise the month before.

In order to get a meager severance package, I had to sign something that I wouldn't sue them for age-ism (since I was the oldest, but probably highest paid, member of my team).

It really got in my head that "am I washed up in this field? Am I being replaced by young college hot-shots with no experience that command less money?

I took contractor work below my skill set until I finally launched my own firm. What running my own start-up firm lacked in money-in-my-bank-account made up for in honing some of my organization and leadership skills that were probably dulled from being a part of someone else's firm.

I got my shot at a better paying job with a big corporation a year and a half ago, and am finally back on the kind pay and challenging active work environment that I didn't even believe in myself I could do again. Turned out the old firm was slashing payroll so they could sell the company to someone else and nobody that is still there is happy. I even got another engineer I liked working with hired in at my new office as a coworker.

While it sucked getting through that stage, I'm looking back at how much more fat, bored, and lazy I could have potentially been at the old firm, paying all my bills, renovating my home, and stashing a large percentage of my income into my 401K to make up for those lost years.


BTW, great bass!!!

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Thanks man. Helpful perspective!
 
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