New Time Zone

My job was eliminated 7 weeks ago from a company I had been at for 21 years. It was told to me upon my arrival to the office early that Monday morning and I was given 5 minutes to leave the building. Since this event, my sleep pattern and energy level has been so odd. I get the familiar 3 o’clock afternoon fatigue but then rebound such that I am wide-eyed and bushy-tailed until 2 in the morning. I am no longer passing out by 8:30 pm. It has been quite unsettling. It hit me yesterday what it reminds me of.  Jet lag! In that 5 minutes on that morning 7 weeks ago, I was transported to a time zone many galaxies away. It makes sense that my circadian rhythm is off. I have only worked at one other company since graduating college 35 years ago. Unemployment is a foreign land. I have started picking up the native language of my new homeland.  The speech pattern includes Exit Statement, Elevator Speech, Positioning Statement, Networking, ATS, Key Words, Branding. I have been living in the world of Insurance since graduating college. I am told this new world I have entered contains Insurance but so much more and is worth exploring. It is filled with new opportunities that I am willing to embrace.  I look forward to finding new ways to use my risk management skills, my data analytic background, my system transformation and process improvement experience to help the inhabitants of my new land. I look forward to meeting them.  And I have many waking hours to do so!