A good friend of mine lost his job recently.  Obviously I know how this feels as I have been down this road twice in the last several years.  He is very skilled at his profession, very well spoken, always on top of his game, but as many of us have…

I lost my job. About 5 months ago. I haven’t been in a place to write about it until recently.  I was keeping much of it inside.  I didn’t want to write about it because it all kinda hurt.  Even though I know it was a business decision and that…

Several of the folks I work with lost their jobs recently. We all go through or see this at some time or another in our career but it was even more sad for me this time because I liked all of these people a lot, and now I will no…

I just had lunch last week with a co-worker whose job was “deleted” last week (that is what he called it). I was unaware that this happened (they don’t put out group emails about these type of things in my office!) but was once again keenly reminded how our careers…