It does not have to be a disaster being laid off
Throughout a long career, many at one point experience being laid off.
Being laid off is often a hard experience to get thorough and will often be followed by a rather depressed period.
I myself have experienced being laid off a few times, most recently just before the summer holidays. Prolonged lack of assignments was the natural explanation.
However, being laid off does not have to be bad Often, it can bring one out of a locked-in picture of who one is and what one should do with oneself working life, to suddenly spot entirely new and exciting career opportunities. If you are lucky, it can also happen that others see some possibilities in one that you are not even aware of.
For me, it was to realize a long dream of becoming self-employed. A dream I previously realized I did not have the courage to even jump into. My dismissal meant I got the push I needed.
In the world of sports, layoffs are now more the rule than the exception, but a layoff is a layoff, and even coaches and sports managers can be hit hard when they are fired.
The other day I read in tipsbladet.dk a really good article about Carsten V. Jensen, who tells about how he no longer resented the firing in FCK in 2014. On the contrary, he is now grateful for the new opportunities it has given him.
One of the questions I will probably ask you in an Outplacement course is;
“If you could work with exactly what you want, what would it be?”
This opens up a whole new perspective on your working life. It does not have to mean that you end up choosing something completely different, but it does mean that you actively choose and take care of your own situation.
It does not have to mean that you end up choosing something completely different, but it does mean that you actively choose and manage your own situation.