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> A year or two later, and they'll freely agree that being laid off was good for them. It strikes me as dangerous to conclude too much from this. In fact, I wo

by nilkn 13y ago

> A year or two later, and they'll freely agree that being laid off was good for them. It strikes me as dangerous to conclude too much from this. In fact, I worry that this particular sort of statistic could be completely meaningless. People often try to find positive interpretations of events which are too painful for them to accept. It's a very powerful form of cognitive dissonance. Being fired from a job you enjoy can be a nearly traumatic hit to your perception of yourself, and it is necessary to reconstruct your self-image in some way. Most likely the person will exercise some creative freedom in this reconstruction process.

tkellogg 13y ago
You won't necessarily find yourself happier - it's a choice. If you go right back and make the same mistakes at a new job, you'll hate that one too. I got fired a few months ago and it was the best thing that could have happened to me. Until then, I'd changed jobs every so often because I never liked where I worked. But when I got fired, I thought long and hard about what I needed in a job. Only after acting on some well thought-out conclusions did I find an excellent job that's absolutely a perfect fit for me. I probably wouldn't have thought that hard about my next step if I wasn't fired. So while that comment is true for me, I can't imagine that it's always true. If I was a dumbass and took a job exactly like the previous one, I'd hate that one too. I might not get fired - I might quit before they fired me. Honestly it doesn't matter which happens first. If you don't put in the introspection to find a place that fits you and vice versa, you'll hate it in no time. Figure out what you need, figure out what you can do well, and find a job that matches that.
WalterBright 13y ago
On the other hand, you may not like your job, and dream of doing some other career or starting a business. But you don't because the path of least resistance is getting up and going to work everyday. Meanwhile, your dissatisfaction of your job results in poor job performance, and you get let go. Now, with the easy path no longer there, one starts making the changes one only daydreamed about before. Of course, this doesn't always happen. But I've seen it happen several times.

by nilkn 13y ago

tkellogg 13y ago

You won't necessarily find yourself happier - it's a choice. If you go right back and make the same mistakes at a new job, you'll hate that one too. I got fired a few months ago and it was the best thing that could have happened to me. Until then, I'd changed jobs every so often because I never liked where I worked. But when I got fired, I thought long and hard about what I needed in a job. Only after acting on some well thought-out conclusions did I find an excellent job that's absolutely a perfect fit for me. I probably wouldn't have thought that hard about my next step if I wasn't fired. So while that comment is true for me, I can't imagine that it's always true. If I was a dumbass and took a job exactly like the previous one, I'd hate that one too. I might not get fired - I might quit before they fired me. Honestly it doesn't matter which happens first. If you don't put in the introspection to find a place that fits you and vice versa, you'll hate it in no time. Figure out what you need, figure out what you can do well, and find a job that matches that.

WalterBright 13y ago

On the other hand, you may not like your job, and dream of doing some other career or starting a business. But you don't because the path of least resistance is getting up and going to work everyday. Meanwhile, your dissatisfaction of your job results in poor job performance, and you get let go. Now, with the easy path no longer there, one starts making the changes one only daydreamed about before. Of course, this doesn't always happen. But I've seen it happen several times.