From Martin Marty:
Here are some compensations in the situation:
First, you don’t have to explain your situation to anyone, including family and friends … Your enemies, if you have any, won’t care, and your friends will understand. Speaking of friends, here is where they come in. More than offering shoulders to cry on, they can help you in coping, imagining, and networking. It’s time to cash in the friendship chips-and ready yourself to help out colleagues and friends.
Adapt, is counsel No. 3. When autos killed the Studebaker buggy business, Mr. Studebaker started making autos, and thrived for decades. I say to the laid-off: your education, training, and experience made, or should have made you into an adaptable sort … I hope that the many who suffer in the period of “creative destruction” in this period are surrounded by and aware of people of prayer, who care.”
In my past I have been fired (dismissed, or whatever) 6 more times than what would seem to be good for any one person. I finally gave up and went the self-employed route. But until then I went through many transistions, I had ample opportunity for every negative attitude and emotion – I thank God that He spared me from the worst of them. I actually learned to have a sincere grattitude that, when fired, my employer’s attitude was not concealed. I wanted to work for someone who needed me and wanted my help and if they no longer needed me then I didn’t want to be a burden.
All that to say that I, a person of experience, found a lot of good wisdom in that article.
Don
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