Loosing Your Job Can be Compared to a Death
by When you look at your loss of job, you look at a death.
I lost my job two weeks ago, but it did not come, as a shock. The company warned us that the end would be near. While some left for other jobs, others like myself stayed onto to the end. And the end happened sooner then expected.
A job that will be coming to an end, can be compared to terminally ill patient. You can’t stop the individual from dying short of a miracle. You can say the same for a job loss. You can’t stop the loss from happening. Yes, you can leave, but would you a dying love one?
After a job loss has happen, as in death, the life changing realities enter into the picture. Before the reality even gets a chance to settle in your mind, you have unemployment applications forms tho fill. If you have 401K money accumulated, you have to decide what the best to handle its dispersion. This can be compared to death forms that have to filled, and money to be disperse among the living.
And while you wait for the unemployment insurance to go through its process, comes the reminders of what you lost. Such as the friends, that you will never see again. Also, all the good times just fade into distant memories, just like the memories of the lost love one.
Another reality comes to visit, you will no longer be going to that job. Even though your mind still has going to job, the reality tells you won’t. You have grown so use to working this particular job, so your mind stills expects you to go this particular job. Eventhough you expect to have a new job in the future, your mind stills see you doing this job at the moment. Remember you have been working at this job for a long period and your mind has grown accustom to it. You must also remember that your mind can not see into the future.
Just as in the death of a love one, your mind still expects to see that love one. In time your mind will accept the death, also in time, your mind will adjust to this job loss.
Finally, in death comes a new life, so as in the job loss comes new opportunities. In time, you may find a better job, or maybe a passion, such as owning your company, that this job has blocked may finally spring forward.
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Post CommentLeonardo da Vinci E.
On November 2, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Live long and prosper! Well said….job loss is a sincerely threatening matter. Not to be able to earn is certainly akin to approaching death. It is important that “we the people” insist that a safety net be in place at all times for those who are displaced so that they can bounce back into work and society and work at trying times. I once did an experiment working a day job and then playing my music at a restaurant on the weekends(it was a great sensation of independance)and I meant to expand upon it. Unfortunantly I lived in a poor neighborhood and attracked the attention of a group of thugs who arranged a home invasion attempt on me I barely escaped. So much for trying to achieve your dreams!