A new beginning...a butterfly story

Today as I sit here at my desk, as I start my journey again as a self-employed person with no security blanket...I can't help but to wonder what took me so long to do it again. I was always trying to get up enough cash so that I wouldn't have to wonder where my next check was coming from...This time I needed a little help to make it happen...on the 1st of August my company that I put so much work into decided they didn't need our office or my services so w/o notice 1st NLC aka The Lending Center decided that they would just put 17 people out on the street with a petty 2 -4 weeks of severance. Ah yeah did I say that they also cut our healthcare benefits as of that day! what a crock of crap that was, what if I had a doctors appt later on that week...I guess no one cares or at least they didn't...I had heard about these type of things happening to other people from other companies, but never in a million years would I think this would ever happen to me...I have been through company mergers and buyouts, but never was I affected until now! I guess it was my time or was it God's way of saying I have been telling you that you needed to be out of there, so since you wouldn't listen to me, I went ahead and pulled the rug right from up under you...which makes me wonder?

Have you been a victim of a company downsizing? or know someone who has?