via a colleague's twitter post:
http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-top-10-jobs-i-lost-this-decade-failing-up-sometimes-but-mostly-sideways-by-jackson-west
this an account of 10 lost jobs by someone with real skills.
one despairs.
(one could)
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When Peter lost his job we were devastated. Crying in the driveway, lost for weeks, completely demoralized, panicked. And yet, nearly a year later, we find ourselves brimming with thanks. Sure, we haven't paid taxes yet and it's not entirely clear if we've broken even this year, but where he has landed seems so much better than the job he was in. Seems strange that we were so tethered to his limited position in a struggling non-profit. This is all to say that the fear of "losing" a job is perhaps worse than the reality of doing so.
ReplyDeleteGreat to find your blog!
jess
ReplyDeletethanks for this - only now finding it
gratefully and grateful for your writing/blogs as well
xxx