Getting laid off sucks, but you can’t stop moving forward

So in my previous post (yes it’s been a while) I was talking about how I gave a FaceBook friend some advice on how to deal when things go wrong. Funny thing is three days after writing it I got laid off from my job! Yeah it sucked and was something like an outer body experience. Your boss comes in and says, “Hey Mike can I talk to you in my office real quick…?”. Now I am sitting here knowing full well that under any other circumstance he would have just talked to me right at my desk as we had a pretty laid back work place (one of the best I have ever been apart of). I knew then it was about to go down. I sat down and he began to speak, then I a began to hear absolutely nothing. I saw his lips move but the only thing functioning was my internal thought process trying to compute, how is this bill going to get paid, how am I going to do that, how long will it take me to find another job, etc.

When I got in my car to drive home there was no emotion, just that weird feeling that, “dude you don’t have a job, there are a lot of things you need to pay for, and your dream of owning your own business is not quite in full swing yet…” So here I am a statistic in this ball of toxic soup we call our economy. The first couple of days all I could think about is how fast I can get another job and updating my resume. I want to work for myself, but that takes money and I need a job to hold me over until that dream is realized.

So here is my resolve (this was my first time being laid off by the way), do my best to find another decent gig first. Then work tirelessly on my dreams and continue to dream and go after that life I want. In life there are always going to be set backs and curve balls thrown in to make life interesting. Hey, these are the things that will make that success story that much better, and will surely inspire someone else down the line to keep going. Times like these is where our faith gets tested and we have to depend on a higher power to get us through. That’s why they happen in the first place, GOD will always show you who is in charge!

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown