From Martin Marty:<\/p>\n
Here are some compensations in the situation:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n