Work what?

Stress has almost become a normality for me lately. There are three main parts of my life as I see it. Home which is the most important, Kung Fu which is important to me and work which is a necessity. As I have blogged earlier this year, I am dealing with some personal issues at home which are very stressful, the process of grading for your blackbelt is very stressful but work had always been good until now. With less than a month to Christmas our company has been sold to one of our major competitors and now the questions of what will happen begins. There is a good chance that they will make major changes to management (which I am part of) and layoffs could be coming. I have worked for this company for 15 years and we are like a family but this new company is very profit motivated and they get it by scrutinizing everything down to the penny. The reason I am blogging about this is because I'm able to relieve some of the stress by sharing with my teammates. Before the UBBT, I would have just internalized everything and never shared with anyone except my family. Now I feel that I must share with everyone because we are a team and that is the most important thing that the UBBT has taught me.

Sihing Lindstrom
Student Member
UBBT 8