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04-23-2019, 10:49 AM #1
Advice for someone who got fired?
Yo guys!
I just had the pleasure of getting fired from my work about 30 minutes ago and my mind is filled with a thousand thoughts right now.
I worked with people with handicap and/ or psychological issues and me myself thought I did a great job.
Boss couldn't explain why I got fired, but I think it had something to do with me telling a few co-workers that I think we can do more
for these poor souls than watching TV 8 hours a day.
Basically, I got too involved and had too many opinions which didn't sit well...
I have 3 choices at the moment since my saving are enough just for a few months.
- Take a job I got offered taking care of kids with constant special needs (great job but takes a toll).
- Find a new job which takes time now because of summer/ holidays already filled.
- Do something entirely different.
I feel positive weirdly enough right now, so I wanna use that burst! Whatever I choose it needs to be in my country for atleast a few months.
Selling my butt or enlist overseas is not an option right now...
Do you guys have any advice what I can try?
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04-23-2019, 01:01 PM #2
Do something different, this could be a blessing in disguise.
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04-23-2019, 01:07 PM #3
maybe move to mexico and join a cartel.
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04-23-2019, 01:27 PM #4
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04-23-2019, 01:33 PM #5
yeah, you are prob right again.
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04-23-2019, 02:36 PM #6MONITOR
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04-23-2019, 02:50 PM #7
That is where my feelings lean towards as well, but I know from experience that it's veery hard to change career when your in one.
Kinda like "I'll be here for the summer", then suddenly you've been there long enough to know when each staff-member bleach their anus...
I want to try something entirely new, but I have no idea whatsoever what that would be. Safe path feels stress-free though as expected and I might need that
at the moment.
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04-23-2019, 03:42 PM #8
Seems like there should be a job on the beach there, maybe something with copious amounts of tourist tips.
Regarding working at a job long enough to know when your coworkers bleach their anus....I honestly can’t say I have had a job situation like that and I’m thankful. Maybe start a mobile anus bleaching business?
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04-23-2019, 03:50 PM #9
I dont know your situation but now is a booming time for small business. I dont know what your bills are but if you are living below your means and have a skill you can possibly make a good startup.
Example:
I know a guy that got his pay cut and quit.
He went to the bank and bought a paint striping machine for parkinglots (his former job)
10 years later he owns a multi million dollar company that deals in traffic safety equip etc.
It is 50 times bigger than the place he left.
He left with his balls and bought that striping machine with money he didnt have and literally built every mans dream from scratch.
I have a few people I know like him that I have studied hard. They were too pissed to give up and knew everyone wanted to see them fail. They came close many times but stuck with it until they had one big contract that gave them enough money to snowball.
Time and dedication is all it takes
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04-23-2019, 04:06 PM #10
Its funny I introduced two millionaires that started the same way. I used to work for one of them.
I was cutting trees for the other and started thinking about how similar they were in attitude, movement, and their histories. I told the guy I was cutting trees for to call this guy, he is just like you and you guys can help each others business and probably will like each other a lot.
He sent him an invite to a party and my former employer bought 51% of his company shares.
Rich people are usually asswipes.
A guy that started from scratch and became rich by toughing it out is usually very similar to the next. Fast moving, fast talking, articulate, and always hungry for more work.
They dont have hobbies until they are set.
They dont buy toys. Their work/equipment is their toys and money is their interest. They wont speak to any one person very long and are good time managers. They arent above talking to anyone.
I have noticed the guys that dont socialize or the assholes rarely reach their level from a small start up. If everyone knows you as a great guy that is in a small seat of power, that big contract that will make you is not far off.
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04-23-2019, 11:35 PM #11
Jepp. I had a similar Job. I quit. Started to drive taxi. 5 years later i was my own boss.
A perfekt Job for bodybuilders.
If u need more money. U just sit in your car for 16 hours with your powderdrinks and cellphone.
Just one problem. Gotta have an understanding gf. If single, its perfect. U Will meet tons of girls
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04-24-2019, 12:42 AM #12
I agree, you never know what opportunities you might fall upon. I've met countless of filthy selfmade rich people and there is a big difference between people who got there
from doing something they love, and people who has done it just for the money or slipped on a banan-shell.
We lived neighbor with one of Swedens richest people, with over 1000 employees under him (selfmade) - he was so damn dorky and friendly that it was awesome, and he cooked us a kids meal
with a glass of wine bcus he himself loved it and gave me two historic chairs bcus he saw me looking at them.
Great dude!
Each and everyone I know that has become successful has gone their own path and sticked through it no matter what, and most have something to show for today even if money is low.
I do not want to work under anyone at all, I never have, bcus I believe I would run the company I work for better after a few months.
Prob is that I don't have the mind to start, just to progress.
Got countless of inventions I want to create and ideas for websites, never started bcus everyone tell me I will fail and I believe them bcus I know to little about it and how it will pan out.
Hate not knowing stuff, it stresses the hell out of me. I want answers the same day, and career feels like a gamble which doesn't suit my personality at all.
However, I do wanna change and I know a must.
I'm also extremely creative and work very hard when I know what to do, but I need results for that to keep going.
Right now I live very cheap, no access to loans and have around 3000 usd which is nothing - can live 4 months on that doing nothing.
I have enough online work to pay my bills either way, but not for saving.
I can take the special needs job which will land me 60-100 hrs a month at the moment, but I don't feel like it (same company-group that fired me) - just for security.
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04-24-2019, 01:26 AM #13Banned
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I think everyone so far is pushing you toward pursuing your dreams, reaching for the sky, etc..
If you met me a few years ago I'd be telling you to do the same, but I think with maturity you begin to realise that a job's a job. When I run out of money, I've to take my guitar out on the street and busk, sometimes just to make the £5 for an electricity voucher, and it might take me an hour to make that fiver.
I'd take up the special needs job for, say, 20 hours a week just as something to keep you buoyant. Unless of course the management company are absolute cunts.
Also I'd use my time off now wisely and go do something that will stand to me for the rest of my life (e.g. something like a residential course or seminar or retreat).
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You seriously can not go wrong doing pretty much any kind of physical labor if you're remotely strong / fit at all honestly just as a side thing. Easily can make $1000 in a few days sometimes.
Any kind of nursing facility I find suffers from the human condition severely. Employees simply don't give a fuck and will resort to stealing the patients stuff and basically acting like any kind of caretaking is a nuisance. Fuck those people. Just worms. When I visit my mother at her place for a few hours every so often it makes me extremely angry, couldnt imagine how working at a nursing place would make me.Last edited by fiddlesticks; 04-24-2019 at 06:39 AM.
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04-24-2019, 10:40 AM #15Associate Member
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Take the job you got offered and if you don't like it or you don't find it feasible, look for another job slowly while you still have the luxury and blessing of being paid.
Also, when you are employed and another employer is interested in your skill set and abilities, it gives you much more negotiating power vs being unemployed and employers trying to twist your arm or under pay you becsuse they think you are desperate and will take anything you get.
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04-24-2019, 10:57 AM #16Junior Member
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+1 This is good advice. (I've lost my corporate jobs 3 times)
Take the job, it gives you an income.
Cut your running expenses as much as you can.
Finding another meaningful job may take much longer than expected, you don't want to run out of savings in the meantime.
Finding a better job is much easier if you already have a job, and you're in much better position to negotiate.
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04-24-2019, 02:03 PM #17
Yeah, most nursing facilities see these poor people as fragile snowflakes that no one dares to touch or help, some even treat them as leeches to be blunt. I hate that and will always
treat them as I would treat anyone, with love and respect.
Thanks everyone for great advice, I appreciate it a lot! I actually took all of your advice and told my family about it to see what they think - each one agreed with you all.
I went today to the other job taking care of a 4 year old kid who can't speak and throw tantrums, I had a blast even though it's demanding to be watchful constantly. Got to be a father today in all essence.
Will keep doing that 50% which will pay me around 1000 usd a month and give me several days of.
The days of is now when I need to grab the sack if skin under me to get my damn balls out and do something! I need to invest in myself more and getting slapped and talking
to you guys has given me the motivation to do so.
Has anyone of you jumped into a business you know very little about (just an idea)? I mean start, not as an employee.
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04-24-2019, 03:23 PM #18
i would not recommend starting a business you know very little about.
Learning curves are very expensive and time consuming.
Just relax for now bud, you will figure everything out. It does not have to be right now.
Head up and work hard.
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04-24-2019, 03:31 PM #19
What state are you in fisk?
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04-24-2019, 06:33 PM #20
Also, as long as you gotta gun, you're never broke.
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04-24-2019, 06:46 PM #21
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04-25-2019, 06:59 AM #22
low on funds, load up guns.
just saying, ski masks are only like 5 bucks.
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04-25-2019, 10:29 AM #23
First off, getting fired is a process. It’s like going through a breakup... you’ll experience a full range and a roller coaster of different emotions and feelings... you need to take a week or two to process this... do not just jump without processing or you will carry it over into your interviews and or new job... unless the new job is just your rebound job and you don’t even care as you’re just trying to fill the void momentarily...
I say get on unemployment immediately, just so that you have some type of income coming in while you sort things out. You paid that money into that fund. It’s yours to take back for exactly this reason.
Process the breakup. Develop a timeline for yourself... build up your resume, submit to a recruiter. Let them do the footwork for you. That’s what they get paid to do. Otherwise you’ll get overwhelmed with the over abundance of jobs on the job sites... trust me on that... timeline, you’ll complete resume by: xx/xx/xxxx, you’ll meet the recruiter by: xx/xx/xxxx, you’ll job search on your own during such n such hours each day.... etc...
Now depending what state you’re in, your background, the residence that you reside in... is honestly steer you into doing your own thing like Obs said... work for you... I would have you inquire about taking in one or 2 adults with handicaps... you’d basically be a foster parent of sorts... typically they get picked up in the morning and then dropped back off to you in the afternoon.. some places pay up to $4200 per person per month depending on where you reside... with your experience, you sound perfect for something like this... you could develop stimulus for their precious minds while they’re away. You can create such an enriching environment for them as you better understand their needs. Your job will be to take care of them. Design activities, their environment. Working for yourself... just do your due diligence. There’s plenty of scandalous greedy money grabbers in that industry. It’s sad. But find a legit place and get to fostering ;0)
Just a thought if you didn’t know it existed. I’d do it personally, but I’m not equipped mentally to properly care for another with special needs like that. There’s behavioral patterns i don’t feel equipped to handle or be able to approach a high stress situation effectively and appropriately... if I had your background, I’d already be doing this.
Just my 0.2 ;0)
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04-25-2019, 11:04 AM #24
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04-25-2019, 12:40 PM #25
obs go fuck urself
ur welcome.lol
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04-25-2019, 01:31 PM #26
Hell yes! I am such a dick to me!
I under appreciate myself! I bitch at myself every time I need a day off. 100 hr work weeks until I get laid off out of the blue and no unemployment. I expect me to work hurt and sick. Don't even get me started on the OSHA violations...
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04-25-2019, 02:29 PM #27
Truly great advice there brother! Unfortunately, the best of just those advices is not something I can use in Sweden (live in Stockholm Obs). We do have a unemployment organ that is actually pretty good, as long as you know what fields you can work in/ wanna work in. You need proof of skills (mostly education, not field experience) if you want the higher paid jobs, but with field experience you could pretty much get anything in the mid range payed jobs - I have a lot of field experience.
We also have kinda like a security fund that we can pay into each month for a certain amount (often a year minimum) of time that will provide you with money if you loose your job. I can't use that since I've been living overseas too long and haven't paid.
Standard pay in Sweden (90% of jobs) is around 1800 - 2400 usd after 30-33% tax, then you have the higher range after that which is very hard to reach without proper education or knowing
the right person. Some tries to work their way up and most will find that they will just get a gold-watch after 50 years of service.
The exception might be a salesman who can grow thanks to commission based income, but you gotta choose commission only, have a steady income + provision job cuts they commission drastically.
Starting a "home" so to speak with either disorder or misfits (we have that as well) here in Sweden is truly hell law-wise. The amoung of rules, regulations, education, paper-work, check-ups, taxes, staff-demand and staff-minimum is just worth it if you have a strong foundation and connections. Building a future beyond just means of living is very hard here since the state what a piece of everything and control everything, most companies here doesn't last more than 2 years.
Our country is great for living safely, but if you want more than a regular life, then it's gonna get though if you don't have a million dollar idea - even then the tax-issues will get to you.
You can't earn anything in Sweden "normally", but you can get great options for loans by earning more.
If you wanna earn more or even become really successful here, then you gotta learn they ways around the laws lawfully, open off-shore accounts or start it elsewhere.
The options to earn a good amount of money in USA is in my point of view amazing! Granted, you need to earn more since you don't have the security we have state-wise, though it will go to hell
here sooner or later anyway. My focus is to place a company in maybe seychelles or Thailand, but trade in America. Just to avoid EU as much as possible^^
I will take in to calm down and learn more + developing a timeline with step-by-step goals to achieve greatness. I just feel I gotta head somewhere now when I have the possibility to do so, time goes
way to fast and I have nothing for the future except "just a job".
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04-26-2019, 01:58 AM #28
Lol I have the experience on this from both sides... being fired and being the hiring party... people come in to fresh from the separation and I can see it in the way they are in front of me... which hides what they truly are and falsely represents who they could’ve possibly been...
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04-26-2019, 02:02 AM #29
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04-26-2019, 02:28 AM #30
That's why you take the job and start looking for a new one immediately. It will save your savings for summer. Do what you are passionate about, I work in mental health and there are a lot of employee's that think it's acceptable to let people vegetate in front of the television also as it means less work for them. From what you said about yourself, what about working with people in recovery.... whether that be mental health or substance misuse.... you get to be very proactive and it's very rewarding watching people overcome obstacles and progress in their convalescence.
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04-26-2019, 02:37 AM #31
Wow!! I had no idea how it worked! I honestly thought you were here in the USA... well, I could always hook you up with a wife over here... looks like they want to open our borders anyway... we can get you married, move you to the state of Utah... probably Alpine would be closest to your natural environment you’re use to... we can get you set up with minimal investment. With your skills we can open up a house and bring on at least 10 clients... there’s a huge demand and need for people with your skill set and expertise over there... these individuals are in need of a healthy home environment. Where they can continue to learn life skills and have a home they can call home.:. For 10 clients your business brings in $45,000 USD (federal tax free btw) you can start a tax free non profit foundation, you can then hire and train a few assistants... open up more houses... repeat process... as you know, it isn’t just a job anyone can do. And still be able to maintain a quality of life for these people that’s well above average ;0)
But seriously my friend... if anything, you should do yourself the favor of going through the loss process... you deserve to be allowed to go through the motions of the emotions. So you can move forward. You’ll experience a roller coaster causing you to be sad, angry, resentful, happy, relieved, strong, joyful, hopeful, then... resentful, angry, sad hate, rage and repeat process... not just from the company itself, but everyone you developed relationships with. It’s like divorce and the other got the kids and the damn dog... you must process for it all. It’ll be a bit of work.
In the hardest of times though... when you feel like you are drowning... just always remember and repeat this mantra...
~Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional~
It’s up to us how long we suffer. We can’t avoid experiencing pain. Or Loss... we can choose though how long we roll in the mud.. how long to suffer... one time I suffered for 3 years... one time I suffered 3 hours and was blessed with moving on quickly.
I wish you speedy healing of your mind, spirit and body... as each of these are affected by the process. If you find times are a bit tough and you need to reach out, drop me a pm anytime. I’ll respond as soon as I’m able. Sometimes it can be unbearable. Sometimes we are feeling resentment and need to just vent about something. Sometimes we will beat ourselves up. Tell ourselves false stories that we are not good enough and or we are lacking... we can be real assholes to ourselves. We treat ourselves worse than we would ever let anyone else treat us... Ive learned writing about these things help me sort through and see the false words for what they are.
My message box is clear and ready if you ever need brother.
One door closes, another door will open. Make a time line. That’s for you. It’ll help keep you focused. Try new things if you wish. Try temporary jobs if you have those out there. Get a feel for a company... maybe try private? Maybe look into that crazy licensing and what hoops to jump through. See if the headache and costs can be worth it or not... you may find that it could be enticing enough...
You’re just at the beginning of a new chapter in your life. First take care of your head and heart. Get primed and ready to present the best you possible to one lucky son of a gun hiring manager or investment decision maker. Individuals with your skill set, have a huge field of possibilities... not everyone can do what you do. It takes a certain level of compassion, love, patience, tolerance and tremendous self discipline and self control...
Whatever you do do not carry this baggage of the old job. Think about all the experience you gained and can add to your resume and Arsenal. They helped bring you one step closer to where you need to be. That’s the last thought you should have of them. Then move on ;0)
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04-26-2019, 06:23 AM #32
Bless you young sir! Place a smile on my face when I read this and believe that it's people like you that make both this forum and our world to spin in the right direction! Will keep what you've said in mind
and I thank you for it brother!
I actually think I will tattoo that quote as well, damn I love it! Fits perfectly on all aspects of life and will be a great asset to remind myself in times to come.
Oh - Yes please! Place me in the arms of a fine american girl, then I can finally become the new generation Tony Robbins, but from what I've read I think that the spot is taken by you.
Cowboymike the lifecoach has a nice ring to it! lol
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04-26-2019, 06:48 AM #33
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04-26-2019, 09:18 AM #35
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04-27-2019, 08:12 PM #36
You guys are some truly amazing individuals ! Your words mean a lot to me and it was such a treat to come across them at this moment in time when most ended!
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