A close call! (almost got terminated!)

[sengsational]

"Glad to stay, prepared to go."

Perfect.

I learned a valuable lesson my very first paid job. At the time I was wrenching, but it was the best thing that could have happened. They hired me at a grocery store during the tourist season, then invented a reason to get rid of me when things slacked-off. It was an early lesson: employees are only employed at the whim of the employer. From then on out, every now and then when I get my paycheck, I remind myself "we're even" (neither one of us owe the other).

--Dale--