A New Beginning...

On Thursday, August 19, 2010 I began a new chapter in my career and life, I am a victim of the horrible economy and am now joining the nearly half million others on the unemployment line. I along with several others at my former employer where part of an effort to keep more than 100 others employed during this tough time, this is a tough time for all. The design and construction industry is being hit hard by this recession and there are a lot of good people who are affected by this, either they are like me and unemployed or they are like lots of others who are taking pay cuts or working fewer hours to try and ride this out.


I will do fine, I am lucky, my family and my friends are being super supportive and everyone is looking out for me. Over the last several days I have received so many emails and phone calls that it is hard to be upset and sad with so many people sending me kind thoughts and prayers I know things will work out and something far better will come of all of this.

For the next couple weeks I am going to think of this as a vacation, it has been a very long time since I have had a long vacation so I am going to try and do some of the things that I have been saying “when I have some free time” because I now do. I am also going to work very hard at completing my AREs, those are the licensing exams that I must take in order to become an architect and I only have three of them left, so wish me luck. If all goes well I will be able to change my resume to say Robert A. Williams, Architect and that will be a huge deal for me. This is something that I have wanted for quite some time, since the 4th grade (let’s just say it is a long time).

I am proud and grateful to have had the opportunity to work at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini and I hope that in the near future I will have the chance to go back, but if that does not happen I also know that I will succeed and thrive wherever I end up. The economy will rebound and we will all be much stronger and happier because of all that we have learned over the past year and a half.

Thank you to all who have expressed your concern and support, please know that I appreciate it all and I will be OK, I will make it through this and I will be a better person for it.