Being Laid Off and Pay Cuts Sucks!

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Being laid off, if it happens to you really sucks but it could be one of the greatest things to come about in your life. Okay, at the time you feel absolutely awful and can be apprehensive of the future. You look around and speculate where your next employment is going to come from. Other organisations and companies in your sphere of competence all appear to be down sizing or else making cuts plus there is pessimism and doom everywhere. The word all around would seem to be of people being laid off along with compensation cuts.

A lot of people, when being let go, feel for some reason ashamed and as though they have let their family down when in actuality, most of the time, it has nothing to do with them or the value of their work. In today’s fast moving money-making world, profession plus job change will occur a number of times in our working life. Being laid off is now just part of the occupational cycle. An additional understandable reaction is to get irate and that is only expected. The thing is not to get bitter or take it like a personal insult. Like they say in the ‘Godfather Films’, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.” Accordingly don’t be bitter. Just move on with your life.

If you can, take a break and have a vacation even if it’s just for one day. Stop thinking about your state of affairs and just enjoy yourself and have some joy for the reason that you deserve it! To get the best out of this psychological technique you need to promise yourself and your loved ones that at the conclusion of your trip, the day following, a new period of your life starts.

Your new phase needs to start with a thorough evaluation of where you are right at this instant. How long will your money last? What are the priority payments you have to make? Is there economic help anywhere? A good idea is then to draw up a budget plan and stick to it. It’s easy to say but anxiety doesn’t help. Effectual action does. Ask and answer these simple questions: Where am I now? Where do I want to go? How do I get there?

I’ve read reports with reference to being unemployed and they talk about ‘finding out what you really want to do ‘ and then pursuing that. That may be Okay for a few but nearly all are in the situation that they need a job and fast! They need to pay the mortgage or the rent and the youngsters require new clothes etc.

My point of view is that on this 1st day of your new phase in life, you need to assume that your occupation is finding a job. Period. Unquestionable there are everyday jobs around the home you could do but that will not get you work, will it. Place aside 5 or 6 days a week to look for work eight hours a day. That is at present your job. Despair and self-pity will not find you employment. It will simply decrease your probability.

On this your 1st day of the latest stage in your life your 1st job is to ask yourself, “Who do I know who could help me in some way, however remote, to find work.”

I’ve been laid off three times in my working life and it sucks. The worst was dreadful but it was one of the best things to happen to me. I was married with two children and living in a tied house and I got fired with no more than a weeks pay on severance. I had no money, no job and had to leave the house inside a month. I visited the unemployment office and they had nothing for me. So I looked for ways to make a living and racked my brains as to who may perhaps aid me.

About 3 months before being fired I had taken out a life assurance policy to look after my wife and children. When looking at the policy and trying to figure out how to meet the payments it dawned on me that maybe I could sell life insurance. I didn’t know anything about it but I made contact to see if this guy could help me. The outcome was that I was employed as a life insurance salesman on a wage and I was able to raise a mortgage to buy a home immediately so I could move out of the tied house into one of my own.

From ostensible disaster a new beginning dawned and a new profession at which I was very successful. Looking back of course it all appears so easy but at the time, I have to declare, it sucks.

Not working in today's economic climate is testing and it is difficult to keep your spirit up and have your priorities right when you have been cut. Enthusiasm to get back out and look for work at the start may be high but after a few rejections it begins to get whittled away. The answer is to never give up and to continually be searching for things you could do that you never thought about before.

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Malcolm Ivinson publishes a website on How to make money from home businesses

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