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Completely. If getting fired ranges up among the ten worst things that could happen to you, you really, really want to rethink your life. Deeply.

kleer001 9y ago
Here are some good reasons, mix and match for most effect: 1 parent earns, two disabled kids, parent has chronic illness, alzheimers grandparent lives with them, relatives are absent or unreliable, job was their visa sponsor and now they have to go back to their war torn country of birth, denied retirement, they are a minority race/creed/color...
- interfixus 9y ago
  I can tick a lot of those. Never gave me any particular angst.
  - kleer001 9y ago
    all or any of those can turn a firing from an inconveniece and re-igniter of passion and hunger into a downward spiral, if that job is the economic tent pole
Jotra7 9y ago
Spoken like a true privileged asshole.
kafkaesq 9y ago
If getting fired ranges up among the ten worst things that could happen to you, you really, really want to rethink your life. Deeply. This strikes me as rather callous, or as well, something that only someone in a relatively secure and high-paying line of work (like software development) -- and of course, no kids to take care of -- could even begin have as a take on the situation. Yes, getting fired isn't anything like getting maimed or killed, or suffering a truly debilitating illness. But for many people, the resulting financial tailspin that comes from losing a decent job (particularly after one has reached a certain age, after which, keep in mind, they may simply not ever find a comparable position) is an extremely brutal experience to go through (and if one has kids or older relatives to take care of, exponentially more so). In fact it's hard to think of a worse blow one is likely to have to deal with (short of, again, the aforementioned physical deprivations).
- iceberg 9y ago
  I work with and live near people who share the same point of view as you and to some degree I get it but I mostly don't agree with it. Here's why and I'm am absolutely not saying this is you!!! I'm just generalizing the type of people I interact with that share your angst. The person who typically fears losing their job (I have been around) has bought into a life-style that they chose and was typically based on their highest earning potential and expect to always be earning this good money. Now their under pressure to keep their well-paid jobs and life-style choices but why oh why did they have to go for the most expense life-style for their earning potential!? I guess human nature. You lose your job have a lower income so what's the worst? Readjust your life-style! I like the parent comment can think of far, far worse life events, far worse than the effect of having a lower income!!!
- interfixus 9y ago
  This strikes me as rather callous, or as well, something that only someone in a relatively secure and high-paying line of work (like software development) -- and of course, no kids to take care of -- could even begin have as a take on the situation You nailed me there! I am a factory worker in my fifties. I raised a child alone. No kidding.
iceberg 9y ago
I couldn't agree more!!

kleer001 9y ago

Here are some good reasons, mix and match for most effect: 1 parent earns, two disabled kids, parent has chronic illness, alzheimers grandparent lives with them, relatives are absent or unreliable, job was their visa sponsor and now they have to go back to their war torn country of birth, denied retirement, they are a minority race/creed/color...

interfixus 9y ago
I can tick a lot of those. Never gave me any particular angst.
- kleer001 9y ago
  all or any of those can turn a firing from an inconveniece and re-igniter of passion and hunger into a downward spiral, if that job is the economic tent pole

Jotra7 9y ago

Spoken like a true privileged asshole.

kafkaesq 9y ago

If getting fired ranges up among the ten worst things that could happen to you, you really, really want to rethink your life. Deeply. This strikes me as rather callous, or as well, something that only someone in a relatively secure and high-paying line of work (like software development) -- and of course, no kids to take care of -- could even begin have as a take on the situation. Yes, getting fired isn't anything like getting maimed or killed, or suffering a truly debilitating illness. But for many people, the resulting financial tailspin that comes from losing a decent job (particularly after one has reached a certain age, after which, keep in mind, they may simply not ever find a comparable position) is an extremely brutal experience to go through (and if one has kids or older relatives to take care of, exponentially more so). In fact it's hard to think of a worse blow one is likely to have to deal with (short of, again, the aforementioned physical deprivations).

iceberg 9y ago
I work with and live near people who share the same point of view as you and to some degree I get it but I mostly don't agree with it. Here's why and I'm am absolutely not saying this is you!!! I'm just generalizing the type of people I interact with that share your angst. The person who typically fears losing their job (I have been around) has bought into a life-style that they chose and was typically based on their highest earning potential and expect to always be earning this good money. Now their under pressure to keep their well-paid jobs and life-style choices but why oh why did they have to go for the most expense life-style for their earning potential!? I guess human nature. You lose your job have a lower income so what's the worst? Readjust your life-style! I like the parent comment can think of far, far worse life events, far worse than the effect of having a lower income!!!
interfixus 9y ago
This strikes me as rather callous, or as well, something that only someone in a relatively secure and high-paying line of work (like software development) -- and of course, no kids to take care of -- could even begin have as a take on the situation You nailed me there! I am a factory worker in my fifties. I raised a child alone. No kidding.

iceberg 9y ago

I couldn't agree more!!