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If You Were FIRED YESTERDAY, Things You NEED to do TODAY

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"Write. Write a book in the next three days. You can write a 30 page book about dieting ('100 ways to Lose 100 pounds') and put it on sale on Amazon in one day. Why not?"

...because you aren't a professional writer? It takes time to learn to write well.

Spend the 3 days learning whatever the latest skills are in your area of expertise, looking around, seeing whats going on, assessing opportunities etc. Don't try write some rubbish book.

Unless you were a painter, you wouldn't listen to someone who told you to make and sell an oil painting.

Not a fan of this list.

"Your contract is up and we don't need you any more" is really not quite the same thing as being "fired". At least in my book. I was fired once. I've been 'let go' due to restructuring a couple times.

Being 'let go' was due to the company not quite being able to adapt to the market successfully. Being 'fired' was down to me.

'Another time I was... And another time I did... And another and another and another. I’ve been fired so many times I can’t list them all.'

Or maybe, just maybe, try to not get fired so many times? I mean, sure, quit a few times, but being fired multiple times, maybe it shows a pattern?

He's probably counting not getting a consulting contract renewed as being fired to prove a point. But they aren't really the same thing. In fact I think a consultant that never leaves (i.e. is never done with what they came to do) isn't very good at their job.

Maybe. But I don't think thats an unusual experience in a world that pretended there was job security within the confines of a corporation.

What's with the weird all-caps words in the title? Especially since the linked post also has all-caps words in the title, but different ones than the HN submission.

I would rather focus all my energies on looking for a new job if being unemployed is what worries me the most.

You've never been fired, have you?

Thats exactly what this list does, but in indirect ways that actually work. Resumes don't work.

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