I was fired once for falling asleep while I was playing music on a radio station in Philadelphia during the overnight hours.
I was a college student who, I guess, needed a bit more sleep.
After a few months of unemployment, I got my break in television at the ripe old age of 19.
Another time an employer fired me because he didn’t think I was in love with his new on-air programming ideas – he was right, but years later this unstable radio executive, an amateur pilot, took his wife up in his plane, fatally shot her and crashed the plane to kill himself. He left children behind.
And through it all, I did just fine.
Great jobs even to this day.
Our careers have ups and downs. Even Steve Jobs was fired by the man he personally recruited to run Apple and the company he founded.
Humiliating to say the least until he returned to achieve even more the second time around.
Fear of losing a job is a self-destructive thought. If you want to fear anything, be afraid of not giving more than 100% in your career.
You can control that, but you can’t control whatever circumstances could lead to your dismissal.
Save for a rainy day – and that is a lot harder than it sounds. Accept that even great people sometimes work for not so great people and it often ends in career chaos.
Every successful person has experienced unemployment at least once, often more than once.
Control what you can control – your professional attitude and work ethic.
Fear of the uncontrollable is often a self-fulfilling prophecy so avoid it.
More great careers have been launched or restarted after suffering from the loss of a job – the thought that is worth remembering every day.
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