Career Exploration and Career Stuff: Job Loss

Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope is that you will find the information helpful in your career journey. As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.

When you lose a job – you can enter a stressful time in your life – people may experience a variety of emotions like surprise, sadness, loneliness, anger, and other emotions.  Here are some suggestions to deal with job loss

* Think of jobs as temporary – be aware that jobs are temporary – jobs begin, jobs end and some jobs change how they operate.  Don’t try to take it personally – jobs change and jobs are temporary.  The thought a job is temporary may lessen the strong emotions you may feel from a job loss. (even though you will still likely feel strong emotions with a job loss)

* Unemployment – you may qualify for unemployment insurance – unemployment may be able to give you financial assistance if you lose your job; you may be able get financial assistance while looking for another job position – check with your state employment program for specific details – the state employment program may be able to help you with finding your next job

* Social network – when you have the stress of a job loss, social groups can help support you in your time of stress from a job loss.

* Health – can be helpful to stay healthy – may look into doing exercises or eating healthy

* Routines – people who work may have an established routine from their workplace, when people lose their job, people may lose a big part of their routine.  People may find comfort in routine. Some ideas to create routine can be
(A) Job club – job club is a group of people who help people with job loss.  Job club may meet at a specific time (like the same day of the week)
(B) Meet with a group of friends on an established routine – meet at a specific time period
(C) Eat at established times
(D) Meet with career experts at established times

Dealing with job loss can be stressful – here some ideas to deal with the stress of a job loss.

Note: Busy with stuff next week, so not likely to be a Blog post for next week.  Will try to do a Blog post for the week after (April 8-12)

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