life's challenges strike again

I just got some disenchanting news that may or may not affect me personally.

The CEO of our long-struggling company has decided to take a position with one of our major investors and step down as CEO of this organization. Strangely, he will continue to office in our office space and be an advisor on our behalf to the board regarding decisions. So he is basically keeping his finger in the pie while distancing himself on paper. This could potentially be a good thing or it could once again spell disaster. Personal problem being of course that my bread-winning job situation is once again possibly in jeopardy.

Recently, our company has been making strides in a positive direction in getting recapitalized in order to free up some money in order to make some money, but I am once again feeling the possible death knoll at the door. This exec that is choosing to leave is one of the few that I respected in the upper eschelons (of course my boss and his boss are not even counted because why would I work for them if it wasn't good on some level - I like my boss's laid-back style, and his boss is a good boss even if he has some personal issues I don't agree with.) We have not gotten raises or bonuses which are almost expected in this industry, and they cut our inflated transportation allowance and our 401K match, but they have recently re-instated the 401K match to half of its former self (which is less than the 10% match that I was getting previously - but that is almost unheard of). Granted, I am not complaining - thankfully I have a very nice benfits package, but it used to be nicer is all...

This is so frustrating ! But in some ways I feel like I am stuck. Who is gonna want to hire someone for 6 months and then wait another 3 for me to come back? And to top it off, I am terrible at interviewing, no matter what steps I take to combat it - role play, etc, I just come off nervous and stiff and not very likeable.

I am really striving to see the positive side right now, so any comments would be appreciated