How do you feel when you loose your job?

Question

What is it like to lose your job? What is the experience like? Can you take it? How do you feel being dismissed in front of your colleagues? Did you get over with it?

Answer 1

You learn from the experience. Pick yourself back up and carry on. This time avoiding the same mistake(s) and perhaps going for a job that you are more suited to.

Answer 2

lose... lose. loose is the adjective for not tight.

I feel scared. Wonder what I'll do now. How to find another job.

In front of my colleagues? No problem. I haven't had any equals working with me for a long time. They'r all beneath me.

Yes, you get over it. You pick up the pieces and move on. Life goes on. You have to make do, get another job. It's not always your fault.

Answer 3

My friend Woody has been dismissed from so many jobs he has stopped being upset about it. He just goes out and finds something better. It is so funny. You would think he would be upset, but it's more like waiting for a bus. Another one will be along in a minute or so. When you lose your job you are suddenly in a position to start over. You can find something much better and maybe with medical or dental coverage and some other good perks. When Margie got fired from Goodwill she was in the pits. She cried and carried on and I wrote her letters of support. Then she asked me to write letters of recommendation and I wrote three for her all in the same morning and a day or two later she got a job as a bank teller and began to make just about twice what she had been making at Goodwill... then she went further and made even more and now has major medical and dental insurance. So for her, getting fired was a doorway to amazing forward motion. She was very worried about it and I kept telling her God would watch out for her and make it right and He did. She has a new car now and a decent lifestyle. She isn't poor anymore. Life goes on. Yes, it can be very unsettling when it happens to you, but if you have the right kind of positive support coming from your real (REAL) friends, you get through it rather quickly and with a minimum of spinning your tires on pavement and tears running down the front of your shirt. It is just plain no fun, but it happens to all of us, and we just keep plugging forward. They made it so I had to leave Goodwill, too, and I was just a volunteer. Management. It changes and with it changes all your options. So you go home and bawl your eyes out and have a few beers and call your friends and get it all out of your system and then you brush off the dust and go into attack mode and find something ten times better. Getting fired or losing your job or whatever you wish to call it is an excellent opportunity for advancement over everything you have know from before. Or it can be a sentence. I would encourage anyone to just blurt it out, how you really feel, call a friend or two, cry, get drunk and then sleep and go out and find a whole new way to celebrate who you are. Sent to you with good energies from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A. (I am 63 years old, and believe me I know this subject, and it is no fun, but what is accomplished when you put yourself through additional grief and pain by getting caught up in stuff you're not going to be able to change? Just pick yourself up and get something good again.)

Answer 4

I have only ever lost my job once and it was in the trial period. They said my work wasn't up to scratch but I was improving in leaps and bounds. I cried. I didn't think they had given me a fair chance. ( think they had someone they wanted to give a job to. Small island, nepotism, I was an outsider)
But anyway, two years later it still upsets be a bit if I have occasion to think about it. At the end of the day though I know they lost a good worker.
The real bummer is that I actually enjoyed working there!
Never mind eh?

Answer 5

I left my job after 18 years. The day i left 20 others left as well. A few of us were in a daze, I was dizzy and couldn't think. I'm ok now but i have to get another job.

Answer 6

I left a place after 24 years, very quietly. They offererd me two other jobs that I didn't want, and I was offered a job elsewhere. Very anti-climactic. No big arguments or scenes. I just felt very sad. I don't feel sad now though, and I made the right decision.

Answer 7

Before i settled in my chosen career in which i am totally happy i did a lot of temping jobs and got sacked from a lot because of my attitude.... being late, not caring, etc... i was like this because the jobs were crap and pointless and i felt i was working for rubbish pay just to make some greedy fat boss even richer!

So, i felt FLIPPING GREAT when i got sacked. i felt sorry for the losers i left behind... doing their rubbish office 9-5 job for the rest of their lives.
It was liberating!

Answer 8

I had one of those horror days. It took me a day and two nights, trying to understand and whatever else was going on in my head. But I manage to get to my senses, pick myself up and went out there on the third day. By the beginning of the next week, I was working. However, I tried to learn from my past mistakes. Hang in there buddy, when one window is shot another door opens up. Don't give up, cave in or quit. Pick yourself up, you'll find another bigger and better one, I did.

Answer 9

it dependents whether you rich or poor ,in my country ,if your father is a rich man than you need not looking for job at all.
for me it is so bad because i am a pr man so when i loset my job i have to loking for a new one and it is more difficult now

may be i will contact my old colleagues when i have a new job but just a few

Answer 10

Last time I lost my job was when I got fired from Taco Bell. I was pissed, because im saving up for University.

So I took a crap on the floor before I left.