The end of the world is canceled: someone else's experience of being fired from work

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The Chinese character for crisis has two meanings. One is danger. The second is opportunity. This is the first thing that should come to mind when you are fired. The opportunity, getting rid of the old, to bring the new and the best into life.

Of course, at first you will have completely different emotions. If we assume that the job was loved, then the first thing that awakens is an inferiority complex. What is the use that for many years you put into practice positive thinking and in difficult moments repeated to yourself like a prayer:"

Why were you fired? There can be many reasons. No one knows better than you what you got into trouble at your former job, where you did not show yourself properly, where, on the contrary, you showed yourself too actively and unsuccessfully. Don't blame yourself - it's not constructive. From now on, all your actions should be directed towards creation.

That's why is strictly prohibited:

-get drunk, - to spend money (the last, by the way) in a casino, -bend with grief in all seriousness (remember, AIDS is the plague of the 20th century), - to lock in four walls, shed tears and savor the thought - by choice: "scoundrels, scoundrels, how they will regret that they fired me" or "I will never find such a good job."

-for the tenth time to come to the now former bosses and demand explanations, -terrorize everyone and everyone with reflections, how meanly they did to you

AND highly recommended:

- remind yourself that life goes on, there are many jobs, there would be specialists;

-to do things that, due to time pressure at work, did not reach their hands, - to meet with friends (whom you have also forgotten in your career race) and feel that you are still surrounded by interesting and loving people, - to renew relationships with former colleagues and from right to left inform that you are looking for a job. Any professional world is narrow - "your" people will surely help you, - to tell yourself and others, especially those who sympathize: there will be a day - and there will be food, in our case, work.

When I was fired from my beloved editorial office, only a session at the university helped me not to go crazy. By the way, I remembered that I am not only a practicing journalist of a prestigious TV channel, but also a fourth-year student at a prestigious university. So, it was possible with all the zeal to devote himself to studies, which I had systematically postponed the whole semester. It was during that session that I wrote my best term paper and was able to read a lot for the exams, which did not go unnoticed and praised by the examiners. With one of them, a famous scientist, I even began a good relationship - solely on the basis of my love for his subject. Now I am writing a diploma from him, which also promises to "amaze my teachers and my comrades."

Free time immediately appeared. I was finally able to fulfill an old dream, to the delight of the whole family: I bought a VCR and a radio tape recorder. In the summer, I went to the university recreation center near Sochi - I deprived myself of this simple student joy for two summers in a row - well, work! My friends and I went around our favorite nightclubs and met a bunch of interesting people. By the way, a rich personal life appeared. My dismissal finally ended an unpromising relationship with a colleague, which lasted sluggishly for a year and a half. Out of sight, out of mind!

I also noticed a change in myself. I was drawn to the stove and broom! With my irregular schedule, I was completely freed from the household and at the age of 21 had little idea of how to cook potato soup. And there was time - and I felt like a mother of a family and with pleasure mastered the wisdom of everyday life. After all, once you have to get married, in life there is not only work and career.

Of course, I found a job later, and even quickly. But before putting on the workhorse collar again with pleasure, I managed to remember how diverse and amazing life is, and how many pleasant things I have voluntarily given up before and will continue to refuse.

And most importantly, I was sure that I would not be lost. I knew that the experience gained plays in my favor, and in any new place I will no longer be a trainee, but an employee, a little smarter and more experienced than I was at my old job. Actually, this is how it happened. It's damn nice to be confident in the future. Confident, despite the fact that you are now unemployed. Because "professionalism", as my good friend aptly put it, "you can't drink it." And your experience, your skills and your talent will stay with you, even if the job "leaves".