So today I was fortunate enough to wake up in the morning, kiss my family good bye, and make it safely to work. Which given the weather lately isn’t necessarily a small feat. However, today was a special day unlike others in my past.
Today I was one of the lucky ones given the opportunity to start fresh. That’s right after 3 years of giving my all to a company, ChannelAdvisor, I was given my walking papers along with about 50 other folks. This was the second round of layoffs by ChannelAdvisor and I can’t say I was blind-sided by it.
I’ll be honest at first I was very angry, afterall I have given a lot to this company and hadn’t gotten much in return beyond my salary… Then I was quite saddened, how would I tell my wife, my kids? I felt like I let them down. But when I told my 4 year what had happened, and that I was sorry I had let him down. You know what he told me? He told me, “I still love you dad.” That’s all I needed to hear.
So I’m not going to look at this as a setback. I prefer to look at it as a swift kick in the rear. ChannelAdvisor told me today, that I’m too good for them. They want me to move on to bigger and brighter things. Really push the envelope and not let them hold me back anymore! So I polished up my web site, updated my resume, and look forward to getting a fresh start!
P.S. – Feel free to contact me with any leads! ;-P
Tags: chris altman, database engineer, designer, engineer, Resume, software engineer, web developer
Site is coming together great! Nice to see a developer treat a design like a woman…(treat her right I mean)
I know what you’re going through … I was with CA back in 2000 or 2001 when they did their first round of layoffs.
I’m surprised you’re actually going public this early, but perhaps it’s b/c you saw this coming. I was blindsided and it took some time to get over the shock and hurt.
I took a look at your resume and it’s pretty nice, but two suggestions: update the verb tense in your CA description (past tense) and think about simplifying it … see if you can make a 1-pager. Employers get resume fatigue after a while, especially in this market.
Good luck & God Bless!
Mate I work at one of your rival companies but it’s really really sad to read all this
I mean esp when you have a family to take care off….But need not worry someone up there is watching all of us….
Though there’s just one thing I don’t understand and that is – $20Million in VC plus the company is in a profitable 4th Quater, where the hell all the money is going? And why keep 2-4 VP’s in recession times (when the recession actually doesn’t affect ppl at that level). One VP’s salary would be good enough to keep 10-15 ppl on board.
But don’t you worry engineers will never starve….All the very best…!