John's Job Situation

Just wanted to get this down in our family journal to remember and explain.  The company John works for, Vestas, is based out of Denmark.  The European economy crashed big time this last year and Vestas has not been doing so well ever since.  They have made a TON of cuts every few months.  Sept. 27th they cut a whole floor full of people- enough to have to lease out part of their brand new building they just renovated.  We were so grateful to make it through all the cuts the other months, especially with a baby coming soon and with all of John's health concerns and testing going on.  We got all our major medical bills and tests and hospital trips in just in time too.  On the 27th, John was finally let go.  His boss had fought hard to keep him, but the big heads in Denmark said someone in their department had to go (there is only 3 in the tax department- John has been there the least amount of time, so they axe fell on him).  We were obviously devastated and very freaked out right at first.  I could not stop shaking for a few hours.  John was heartbroken.  But then, we both felt that quite peace and confirmation that this was all for a reason and that everything was going to work out for the best, and soon.  After just 3 stressful weeks of job searching and interviewing, it all did work out, for the time being at least.  His former co-worker at Vestas decided just 2 weeks after they let John go, that she no longer wanted to stick around and went ahead and accepted a job offer from another company.  That very day she put in her 2 weeks notice, John's boss from Vestas called him up and told him he wanted him back.  He even offered him a promotion in both pay and title.  We both felt like this was a good solution for the here and now- probably not for long term, but to keep that paycheck coming in again for a little while until we can figure out what we really want for our family.  It has been a tremendous blessing to have those paychecks as well as the health insurance and we are very grateful things did indeed work out so quickly.  Unfortunately, John has worked far too many stressful hours since he has been back.  He is the only one doing all the grunt work that has to be done now.  He even had to work through most of our Christmas vacation in California. So, while we appreciate the work, we are hoping to make some positive changes for our family in the near future.  And that about sums it up!