I Want My Life Back

Worked 34 years at job.    Many long-time friends and positive relationships.   Took new job, a promotion, same employer but different department, location, and supervisors.    It seemed like a good opportunity and I certainly had the right experience to move ahead.        I did not know anyone at the new place.    It was lonely there.   New job had a trial period.    New people threw me out to the road, all my prior years of work made no difference.    I was escorted away like a criminal, and all of my identification confiscated.    It turned out I had come into a workplace that was a sorority social club of people who already knew each other and did not want me there.     I am now sitting around looking at the walls at home, after all those years of work.    My skill set is narrowly limited to the things I did at the job I had for 34 years.      I just want my life back.       Or hoping to get a new life.    I am not giving up yet.   I still have enough youth and health to move along.      Sometimes I am so sad.    Other times I hope for an exciting future.     My feelings oscillate depending on what day or hour it is.     I wake up in the morning  well-rested -- it's nice to sleep in, but so saddened by the life I've lost.