THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL ARE YOU AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR JOB? | Página 8

ARE YOU AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR JOB?
Loss of relationships
For many people, their closest relationships are with people at work and losing them can be
painful. The best way to mitigate this is to have many positive relationships outside of work
also. And of course increasing your employability lets you quickly find a new job and new
relationships at work.
Wrap –up
Reduce your fear of being fired and you increase your freedom
and happiness at work. At the very least, you can stop being
ashamed about something that happens to hundreds of
thousands of people every year, is perfectly natural and which
may not be your fault at all!
I’m not saying that companies should never fire people. Some people fit in, some people
don’t, and companies need to say goodbye to those people who are not contributing or
learning. In fact, for some people, being fired from a job turns out to be a great thing, that
allows them to move on to a job where they become much happier.
The important thing is, that we as employees should put ourselves in a position where being
fired is not a terrible thing. That way we rid ourselves of the fear of being fired and grant
ourselves new freedoms at work.
Are you going to do that, or are you going to spend your work life going along with just
about anything, simply to hang on to a job that isn’t good for you in the first place?
One of the biggest threats to happiness at work is having too many fixed expenses at home.
When you’re completely dependent on bringing home a pay check (or two!) every single
month, you’re vulnerable. If work turns out to be unbearable you can’t simply up and leave
and take three months without income.
I’ve chosen low-rent living for myself. At first it was through accident rather than planning
but now I would never live any other way. It has made me happy at work – and in life.
Some years ago, my wonderful deceased wife Lotte and I were hunting for a new place to
live in Kenya. We were living in a small, one bedroom bungalow right ny the ocean, but miles
away from civilization and we really longed for more space, more rooms, a bigger kitchen, a
larger bathroom etc. Homes are getting ludicrously expensive in Kenya not to mention in all
European capitals, so we went through a process that is common to many people hunting for
a new home:
1 We started looking at places within our budget that we could easily afford.
2 But those places weren’t really cool so we started looking at more and more expensive
places
3 Until we’d reached our threshold of pain and were only considering the most
expensive places we could conceivably afford

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