NC here, legal reasons.
Have spent the last year suing my ex company for mat discrimination. Yesterday I won. Everyone around me is telling me how well I did and they're all really happy. Financially, yes I did very well, it gives me space to breathe and it will have hurt them for the really shitty way they treated me.
But I just can't feel anything except bereft for the whole thing. I loved that job. I literally sold my apology, which admittedly may have never come anyway, for the sake of a few thousand pounds. Yesterday it seemed smart and unimportant but now I just feel so angry, at myself as much as anything. My legal team were only doing what they thought I wanted.
Thanks to the nature of the industry I won't be able to do the same job again. I've been working on something else but my heart isn't in it. I feel like I'm grieving for my old career. I don't really know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. My job defined me. Of course for the next period I'm a SAHM which I love, but what do I do when she goes to school? I literally have no idea which direction to go in now.
Has any one else been through this? How do you make peace with it?
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Surprisedtofeelbereft · 05/02/2016 11:33
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