Fear of Firing: Doables to help you keep your job....and if you lose it.

Especially if you have a good job but sense you’re viewed as average at best, it’s only natural that you’re worried you might get the axe, if only in a round of layoffs.

And that’s scary. Even though the unemployment rate is the lowest in 50 years, that statistic masks that good jobs, as opposed to grim gigs, are harder to come by.

What’s a mere mortal to do? My PsychologyToday.com article today offers doables, things you can realistically change, to help you keep your job and if you lose it, how to make that for the best.

Fired! What to do now.

Fired? Standard advice is to take some time to process it, grieve, reassess.  

My clients have found that poor advice. They’ve found that the longer they “process,” the harder it is to move forward. The bad thoughts stay top-of-mind because of the revisiting and revisiting the “unfairness” of it all.

My clients have found the advice I give in my PsychologyToday.com article today to be more helpful than extended time off to process.

A Workover: Bouncing Back from Getting Fired

A caller to my radio show had been a substitute instructor at a community college for 22 years. One day she got a call from an administrator who said that an unnamed student said the instructor was rude and would be taken off the call-to-substitute list. 

I used the exchange between her, my guest Dr. Mark Goulston, and me as my PsychologyToday.com article today.