![]() ![]() ![]() Building your own worth and having purpose is a different story entirely. Unemployment can kill your psyche if your whole identity is built upon who you work for. Detach your self-worth from your career status.Sad to say, but the longer things play out, the worse they can get. But on health (mental and physical) and relationships. Know that long-term job uncertainty has its effects.If you’re not developing a network far beyond the 4 walls of your company, you’re missing out on getting to know people who will be able to help you long after your current job ends. Stay current and you’ll be an asset in any organization, not just the one you’re currently in. What can you do to keep this from happening to you–or be prepared for it when your career looks like it’s come to a halt? And went through undue stress and uncertainty because of it. Will everyone face this problem of a career path ending? No.īut is it possible if you’re not the person in charge of all aspects of your job? Simply ask your friends who have been in this exact situation–you’ll hear words like this: Embracing that I have a new path and only I can make it work.Having a healthy sense of productive desperation (I’ll define that below).Identifying my key assets in the marketplace.When my road closed, I had to build another one. They’re usually built when one of a couple things happen: 1) when another road has become obsolete, even dangerous and needs overhaul, or 2) when a path needs to built that takes large groups of people back and forth to emerging and prosperous areas. New roads are created constantly in transportation. ![]() I could go down the old road, but risk never getting to where I needed to be: productive, secure, and happy. It was only a numbers game and I just needed another chance, I thought.īut what I really needed to was do what smart businesses do every day: evaluate risk and lower it. One more wave or two or making it to the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th round of job candidates. Surely, one more interview would do the trick, I’d tell myself. That career path I loved, thrived in, had a passion for that woke me up in the morning, had ended. Or, in my experience, I spoke up against bad behavior and inexcusable lapses of judgement inside my organization–and received the ultimate prize package of termination, threats, and a story of why I left my last employer as something that would make even the most gutsy hiring manager dive for cover out of fear that even 1% of it wasn’t accurate. We find out that management doesn’t value “experience” like they should and we’re taken out at the knees by subtle or blatant age discrimination.īut we also might have gotten complacent or decided we didn’t want to learn the latest technologies in our companies…and in the process, shot ourselves in the foot. We start to earn great salaries, but get pinched by companies that someday want to cut costs. We get the degree, do all the right things, but then something happens. Some of us start down a certain road in life and we assume we can travel on it forever. And if I’m truly looking out for the interests of people, that means telling them the truth. The last one was the doozy–and I felt like I needed to say it. I went through the experience from hell in my career and I want to help others avoid the same fate (if you want to read about how you can protect yourself in bad situations, the link to my book, The Arsonist in the Office, is below). I shared 10 points about how to survive a job search in one piece. That is “Some of you may never get another “real job” again and it may be time to realize that–and look for something else.” And the founder said that in 350 presentations that’s he’s heard, no one ever said what I did. I talked to a job search/career help group last week…some unemployed, underemployed, and others looking. ![]()
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