| Losing your job can be one of the most emotional and | | | | time dream or passion when they lost their job. |
| sometimes traumatic events a person can experience. | | | | Even if you don't have any idea right away what you |
| It's bad enough when it happens in a good economy | | | | want to do or you can't remember what you've |
| but it can be even worse in hard economic times. | | | | always wanted to do, it's not the end. You don't have |
| When you get the news there are a dozen or so | | | | to start the very next day. Take some time to reflect |
| different things going through your mind. How am I | | | | and think about what you want to do. Think of what |
| going to buy school supplies for the kids? How will I | | | | you are good at doing and how you can make a |
| pay the mortgage? How will I pay for the repairs to | | | | business out of it. My former employers started their |
| the roof? These are just a few. | | | | own company providing services to the medical |
| As bad as this may seem, it can actually be a blessing | | | | industry when the company they worked for went out |
| in disguise. There is a saying that goes something like | | | | of business and they were let go. Their business has |
| "when one door closes another opens". Most people | | | | been around now for about twenty years and is very |
| rarely if ever think of losing their job as another door | | | | successful. In another case, I have a friend who |
| opening. They only see the one that just closed. | | | | recently lost his job of twenty-two years. When he |
| However, everything that happens in your life happens | | | | was given the news that he would be let go, he saw |
| for a reason. Losing your job is life's way of telling you | | | | that other door opening and opportunity inviting him in. |
| that it's time to pursuit a dream you've always had but | | | | He had always wanted to start his own business and |
| forgot about. Maybe there is something that you are | | | | do something he thought was more meaningful and |
| passionate about and wish that you had the time to do | | | | rewarding. He saw losing his job as a sign that it was |
| but your job always kept you from doing it. There are | | | | time to pursuit his dream. He's not a millionaire yet and |
| a few self-made millionaires(or even billionaires) who | | | | he might never be but he's doing something he's |
| became rich because they decided to pursuit a long | | | | always wanted to do. |