Just read in the media that my bank will be cutting another several hundred employees before the end of the year. Based on the article, I look pretty safe (the cuts are in certain departments & divisions that I don't belong too).
I had been feeling slightly insecure about my job, due to the financial crisis. My Day 1 manifestation had been to manifest job security, by attracting to myself key projects and transactions etc, such that I become indispensable.
Looks like it's working.
Today, I have just gotten involved in another big project. Actually it arises directly out of the financial crisis. The government of a particular country has created a new set of extensive regulations to rein in evil bankers. There is a huge amount of work that needs to be done, to ensure that our bank has processes and procedures to comply with all these new regulations.
I was assigned to work in this project, even though I do not usually cover this country. My boss just assigned me to do it, for no obvious reason. Anyway this project provides some assurance that I'll be required at the bank, for quite some time. When a bank faces a financial crisis, it doesn't make sense to retrench the people who are directly managing the immediate implications of that financial crisis.