15 - This Too Will Pass

Today is one of the dark days.

We were given the specific number of job losses across the country, and it's bleak.

In my newsroom, for every ONE person that will keep their job, TEN others will lose theirs.
There were audible gasps as the verdict was read out, despite a year of build up.

In the end, it was worse than we could have feared - isn't it always with redundancies?
And those who do stay won't even recognise their new job, because it will be so different to the way they worked before.

But through all of the tears and fears today, all I can do is relentlessly keep reminding myself of the wise advice of my family: "this too will pass.**"


** Borrowed from Abraham Lincoln, of course... and he probably got it from someone else!