I ask my father and his wife to come for dinner and tell them what's happening. The cat is finally out of the bag. I try to sweeten, explain, illustrate, tell them the package is enough to allow me to carry on for more than a few months, but the reaction is what I expected. He's old school, my father. He worked a lifetime in one company, starting as a blue collar and ending a manager, and ended his career as a production manager in another small company, but only because he was hunted. The outplacer role, moreover, leaves him somewhat puzzled, and it takes a degree of effort on my side to explain him what an outplacer actually does (maybe because I don't really know it myself...).
I know that in the coming weeks I will receive several unsolicited advice on how to manage my future career... It 's his way to help, and I appreciate it.
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