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Always take time for yourself after losing your job

5/30/2016

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There’s no secret here. I am looking for work.

I was laid off from my social media/communications position May 13, 2016 after working there for more than 2.5 years. And I get it. Working for a health-based charity in Alberta’s current economic climate, the writing was pretty much on the wall for my termination. 

However, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t bitter about it. It’s a job loss and after I found out about the decision by my employer, I felt like I was punched in the stomach. 

I know my employer’s decision was out of my control and I get that it has no reflection of my skills or on-the-job performance, but I was always of the opinion that I should always work hard to get to a position within my organization where I am too valuable to lose my job — even when it goes through times or challenges. I guess I’m a little old school by that way. 

Since I found out about my dismissal — when my manager wept as she gave me the bad news notifying me that I would lose my job in two weeks — I had troubles sleeping until my final day at work. 

It was tough. I was laying in bed each night trying to figure out what’s next, my financial situation, my future, etc., etc., etc.. However, once I was finished at my position, I never slept so well. I was in bed for most of the morning, every morning.

I also spent some time working on this website in hopes to get a new job, along with looking for new opportunities. I have had a couple of interviews followed by a couple of rejections, followed by me beating myself up for not landing those jobs.

It’s been a roller-coaster ride to say the least, but the biggest thing I have learned through all of this — and this search to land a new job — is to take time for yourself. Put the job search aside for one day, or a week, even — along with the need to give your social media job portfolios endless facelifts.  

Recharge by doing something you enjoy like a hobby, go on a camping trip, visit your out-of-town family. Don’t let your frustrations about losing your job — or being jobless — overwhelm you. 

Taking time away from the search may actually help you refocus on landing a new opportunity to your liking. This blog is one way to help me recharge.


Going forward, I hope to update this blog once a week to share my successes and failures in my job search. I hope I can help others who are in the same boat as I am, or at the very least, have those who are jobless share their successes with me. 


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Harry
5/30/2016 10:46:01 pm

hey Jeff - keep killin' it at whatever you do! Before I came to Saigon I packed up/sold my place and then hit the road to Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Seattle. Saw people, went to football games, drank microbrews. Then I was fresh for the next phase of things after basically six weeks as a backpacker. You'll be all right.

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Sherry link
5/31/2016 02:32:47 pm

Dialogue is really a great way. I'm not great at distractions or finding them for that matter and Harry had some great advice- travel! Once a vagabond storyteller there are places you can see and say you have escaped the 12-18 inches of space given to do one's job. That we overcome odds is not my own that comes from Adam Hynam-Smith who owned one of the first food trucks in Canada called El Gastronomo Vagabundo. Vagabonds Vive!

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