#getting fired

[bitchesgetriches]

I'm probably about to get fired from my job. I deserve it. I have an emergency fund that will last me 3-6 months depending on some weird housing thing. But no idea what to do next. I feel into this job and this industry, and I don't like it very much, but it is all I've spent my professional life doing. I don't know how you get a new job when you've been fired. And I don't how to find a job you don't hate when you need to live.

Sweet pea, this might feel shitty right now... but I think it'll end up being GREAT for you. I speak from personal experience:

I Lost My Job and It Might Be the Best Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Me 

I know we're different people, but I hope my story can help give you a few tactics for making a career transition into something that suits you better and fuels your creativity. Here's some advice:

My Career Transition Succeeded When I Gave Fewer Fucks, Made More Friends, and Had More Fun 

Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty by the Numbers 

The Fascinating Results of Our Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty Poll 

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[dannydevitostrollfeet]

having… loved.. ? | Brad getting fired from Trixie Cosmetics

[aaiieell]

You can download this sheet in PDF format here:

Idioms & Phrases About Getting Fired!

Ever heard phrases like "give someone the boot" or "give someone their walking papers"? These are just a few ways English speakers talk about losing a job!

Want to learn more? Check the sheet below for definitions and example sentences to expand your vocabulary!

[darkcloudsatnight]

Just some advise I have for everyone going through a large change in life, whether it be graduating high-school/college in the next year or even just recently, moving somewhere far away, getting a new job, possibly getting married or considering it, just getting into a relationship, etc.

It's all going to be okay. I may not understand all the way what your going though, but I do understand that going through a big change in your life is going to be stressful. You're going to have all these thoughts of "what do I do now?" Or, "did I do enough here?" Or "Am I doing the right thing?", even "what do I do now?"

Even if you feel as if you didn't do enough, you did what you could with the time given. You may not have gotten along with everyone you wanted to, or for those graduating high school, maybe you didn't join all the clubs you wanted or socialize with as many people as you planned, but you did what you could in the time given.

If you question whether or not you're doing the right thing, if in a relationship or getting a job, maybe even moving, it's all normal. Nothing is supposed to really feel "right" or "normal" when you're making a big choice in life. Maybe in time, you'll realize that what you did was either the best or worst decision of your life, just know that what happens next is your choice. If you feel terrible about it for either making the mistake for the first time, or maybe for the second or third time, you can learn from the mistakes you know. It may sound childish, but learning from the past mistakes you've done really teaches you what to do in the future. Even if the choice you made was one of the best choices you've made, just know it can go down, and that's normal. Don't overstress about the fact that's it could go down, because it doesn't always go down, but when it does, remember it's normal and everyone goes through it. So, you're not alone, no matter how alone you feel.

As for the future for you highschoolers or college students, maybe people who just got fired, who knows what it will hold for you. Maybe you'll get a (or another) job and live on your own in an apartment or your own home, heck maybe even with your parents, or maybe you'll date someone and get married and live with them. Maybe you'll get a pet, or have/adopt a kid. No matter what, it'll all be okay, because that's what's supposed to happen in life. You may feel down and depressed sometimes, as if nothing can get better, but with time and change, it can get better. Life isn't a big field of opportunities. It's a rollercoaster of bad and good things. Either if those opportunities are something like a job or maybe marriage or something similar, just know that it can get better if you put the effort in to get better. You may not know what to do know, but sometime in the future, you'll know. It may be today, in two weeks, a month, a year. But in some amount of time, you'll know what to do. Its stressful, I get it. Just know that it can get better, or worse. It all depends on how you treat it. If you see it as a new opportunity in life, or as the end of something meaningful, just know that that is what life is. Things will end, opportunities will come to a close and may never come back again, relationships will either get stronger or weaker and eventually break off, you might get fired from your job, but know that everyone feels and experiences that, and you aren't alone.

I just hope that everyone that needs and reads this is feeling okay and that this just helped in the slightest. If you're feeling sick or unsure about what's going to happen, that's okay. It's how everyone feels at least once. Know that you're not alone when feeling this. Everyone has felt this at least one. It's your choice to feel better or worse about it.

(Here are some pictures of animals that I've seen to (hopefully) make you all feel better :3 )

[savage-rhi]

A burrito is a coffin for food, and my body is the burial site.

[remembertheplunge]

Completion

November 26, 1997. 10:20am Deva’s

A time for completion.

A time for hunkering in.

I should be working, but, I just had to write.

I just had to do some more work with the concept of completion.

“Oh, to be alone in a room with soft white light and the diary” (from an Anais Nin tape on her survival of internal and external demons. She found peace.)

The following is from Zen and Work: p. 477

"In his mind, he has not completed. In order to be able to tap into the wellspring of energy that completion brings, we must know when something is complete, when it is time to let go.” (End of quote)

Establish Completion Criteria You will know when the time has come. 

It will be complete when:

1) The Bankruptcy is complete

2) The Foreclosure is complete

What’s left simply, what can’t be folded away, are whips and ghosts.

The trip to completion involves companions of persistence, purpose, patience and pause crossed by reflection.

I suppose if there was any one good thing about being fired, it was being given the gift of possibility of completion of the Public Defender experience.

Getting fired and all of her attendant friends: rejection, self doubt, exile (her shadow, but still, of her.)

Though her tendrils may flail out through the years, like those of a poisonous jelly fish, still, in her passing, comes a sense of completion.

So, on with life, with the study of completion. A lot will come with anniversary.

I feel the 90th day and then the first year anniversary will be significant.

 Some of this simply must heal itself.

12/17/1997

Yesterday, I spoke of it (being fired) softly, sweetly. Darleen, the court clerk, said “An opportunity to leave, to begin anew.

Start over, begin again.”

end of entry

Note:

I was fired from the Stanislaus County Public Defenders’ office in August of 1997. It resulted in me losing my house to foreclosure and to my declaring bankruptcy. By November and December of 1997, I was grappling with the concept of completion. 27 years later, 2/18/2024, Im still grappling with those long tendrils. I know now there is no completion. There is process. There is the  trajectory cause by the firing. There is the knowledge that the events of 1997 fuel the engine of the desire to tell the story now.

Anais Nin was an author and kept journals. Her writing is beautiful

Deva's was a restaurant in Modesto that I used to write in.

[privatejoker]

if you have OCD that moralistic post it not about you. keep scrolling. i love you

[bitchesgetriches]

I Lost My Job and It Might Be the Best Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Me

It’s kind of hard to keep up my normal “lol the world is burning pass the whiskey and keep fiddling” tone with this one. Humor is a wonderful coping mechanism, and while I’m still going to try to make you guys laugh… there wasn’t much laughter when this all went down.

In fact, there were tears.

I was laid off on a Friday, and asked to work for one more week. (Who does this!?) It was a miserable, surreal week to say the least. Two totally different reactions dueled for control of my mind.

Keep reading.

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[chaotic-insurgent]

I'M FUCKING DYING

[tierras]

the mutual aid los angeles network (malan) has put together a spreadsheet with valuable resources for people affected by the ongoing los angeles wildfires and wind storm. the sheet is constantly being updated with resources such as shelter info, animal boarding info, addresses for distribution centers, volunteer opportunities and so much more.

please share this spreadsheet widely

[its--deandraa]

Let’s play a game!!!

It’s called “Will I get fired from my shitty job this year or continue another year stressing about how they ‘might’ fire me?”

Post your ballots now!!

[demaparbat-hp]

Existential Nihilism Squad™

[glitchmeharder]

Story time

I have a job as a librarian, love it. First job ive ever really loved. Was a no call no show a few months back because mental stuff.

- Love the job but it doesnt pay enough.

- Finally applied for some better jobs.

- Got approved for a medical office clerk.

Due to stress and recovering from being sick I fcked up my schedule and thought i worked the 23rd and not the 22nd. Totally backwards.

Got written up for it and they are voting on if to fire me.

Im so sad mad. I didnt want to leave but it's probably for the best. I've never been fired, never been written up!

[gaylactic-fire]