Friday, May 29, 2020

Dumb Little Man How to Keep Your Sanity After Losing Your Job

Dumb Little Man How to Keep Your Sanity After Losing Your Job Check out this post from Dumb Little Man: How to Keep Your Sanity After Losing Your Job This year a lot of people lost their jobs.  Whether you were fired or laid off, the company shut down or you left because of chemistry (bad boss, etc.), or even if you left to pursue something else that didnt quite work out you arent alone. Lesley Knowles wrote the article and she includes 6 points: Accept and face reality Go on and mourn Learn valuable lessons from the snakes venom Assess and improve your way of thinking Be thankful for what you still have Get moving! I know that when you have lost your job you go through a lot mostly emotionally/mentally, but also socially (in many cases you just lost the social group that you were around 40+ hours a week), physically, financially, etc. I like Lesleys points (they make more sense on her article, where she drills down on the concepts), and I know that if you are depressed then points dont do much.  But maybe they can do something to get you moving forward again. What did I end up doing after getting laid off?  Immersing myself into the right thing, at the right time, saved me from the pit of depression.  Heres a bit of my story: I Just Got Fired View more presentations from jasonalba. Dumb Little Man How to Keep Your Sanity After Losing Your Job Check out this post from Dumb Little Man: How to Keep Your Sanity After Losing Your Job This year a lot of people lost their jobs.  Whether you were fired or laid off, the company shut down or you left because of chemistry (bad boss, etc.), or even if you left to pursue something else that didnt quite work out you arent alone. Lesley Knowles wrote the article and she includes 6 points: Accept and face reality Go on and mourn Learn valuable lessons from the snakes venom Assess and improve your way of thinking Be thankful for what you still have Get moving! I know that when you have lost your job you go through a lot mostly emotionally/mentally, but also socially (in many cases you just lost the social group that you were around 40+ hours a week), physically, financially, etc. I like Lesleys points (they make more sense on her article, where she drills down on the concepts), and I know that if you are depressed then points dont do much.  But maybe they can do something to get you moving forward again. What did I end up doing after getting laid off?  Immersing myself into the right thing, at the right time, saved me from the pit of depression.  Heres a bit of my story: I Just Got Fired View more presentations from jasonalba.

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