Yesterday my younger son, Dante (26), found out he would be keeping his job of two years. Like many companies across the nation his company was also going through a period of downsizing and re-evaluating the costs and efficiencies of doing business. Many, it not all of us, have been affected in some way or have gone through this in the recent past. It isn't something that is out of the blue or rare in this current day and age. There are more people that have experienced this than not. It doesn't make it any easier to have a nationwide support group than can commiserate about it. It doesn't help when you are working in the very same branch office as the CEO and watch him being fired and leave. It doesn't help when you are told you need to interview for jobs at your place of employment and there aren't enough postings to go around. It doesn't even help when you are finally told you got the position and have to watch during the day as others you have worked with cry and pack their desks. It doesn't help.
But you get up and go on. Whichever side of the desk you land on, even if it's no desk at all, you go on. It makes you think, it helps you improve, and it can change the way you do things.
Dante let me know he was told they wanted to keep him. It was good news.
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