I may be out of a job by the end of the year. Why such a shocking news all of a sudden? I have always boasted to my friends that I enjoy a great deal of job security working at this company. So what happened? Well, the culprit is the all-too-familiar Technology Replacing People scenario.

My company has a nationwide satellite station based in LA, a local cable station in the LA area, and a local cable station in SF. To date, the 3 stations run rather independently of each other. Each station has its own Programming Department to take care of its own program line-up and signal transmission to viewers' television sets. During the past year however, the company has been investing a lot of money into upgrading its system with hopes of integrating operations of the 3 stations into one centralized location. Soon, programs seen on all three stations will be transmitted out of the same playout center located in LA. As a result, the Programming Department of 2 of the 3 stations will become obsolete. What used to take 3 teams of people working in 3 separate locations can soon be done by one team working in one location. I will be one of those to be axed once such upgrades are completed.

My colleagues and I here at the SF station already sensed this is to happen somewhere down the road. This sort of thing is imminent. We just never knew when it will hit. Today we got word through the grapevine that the day is drawing near.

I'm back from the Big Apple. It was altogether a wonderful trip. One word sums it all up - food. Ate so much that I think I have to take a break from food, if that's even possible. Probably not.

Can't document further details/thoughts of the trip right now cuz I have to plunge right back into work. But I have to say, the 3 wishes I hoped for prior to the trip pretty much came through. Isabel didn't affect my trip at all. I was able to finish what I had to at work before I went. And my cold was almost entirely over by the time I got there. Thank you to whoever was watching over me.

My challenge right now, WTW, is not to make the content of my dream come true. It is to get over this darn cold I caught from my coworker. It sucks to be sick. It's sickening to be sick, which makes matters worse. People should not be allowed to go to work when they are sick. If my coworker had stayed home, I wouldn't have caught it from him. But then again I'm at work right now. Have to get a bleep load of things done before I head out to NYC this weekend.

3 things I wish to happen before my trip:
(1) All my work gets done (which blogging doesn't help).
(2) My cold is cured.
(3) Hurricane Isabel dies down.

WTW: Googi, hmm...maybe you dream is telling you that you are ready to move on with your next challenge. That it is time to step forward and take on things without fear or worry. That you will happy with whatever that big challenge is!! You know having a baby is the biggest challenge! It's a life time commitment. And that fact that you are happy with it means a lot!

Googi's comment on WTW's entry about kids: Funny you brought up the topic of kids. I had a dream this morning that someone abandoned an infant boy to my care. The baby was very cute. In the dream I was very happy that he came into my life. I woke up with a smile on my face. What does this dream mean? I have no idea.