I've been fired

In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates for a
long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that I'll be
free. Feel like going out of jail.

On 2014-04-19 7:17 PM, Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

Sorry to hear. What line of work were you in?

--
Silver Slimer
Wikipedia & OpenMedia Supporter

On 4/19/2014 7:17 PM, Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.


When I knew I was about to loose a job, I started to send out resumes,
hit the job boards, and do anything I could to find a different job.

Since the Job was of prime importance to support my family, I did not
limit my search to with in a few miles of my house.

Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

On your resume, don't say "you were fired". Say you
were "declared redundant". There's a big difference
between "fired for cause", whereas "declared redundant"
is the new normal. Your job is in India or China now.

Paul

Jon wrote:

In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates for a
long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that I'll be
free. Feel like going out of jail.

If you get fired and feel like singing "Ding dong, the witch is dead," it
wasn't a good job.

--
Evolution can see the future and plans accordingly.

Per Jon:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates for a
long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that I'll be
free. Feel like going out of jail.

I and about 350 other IT people got outsourced from the major utility
company where I had worked for 24 years.

For awhile, I was looking for a closet and six feet of rope.

But I fell into a contract developer gig at a really-major mutual fund
and went on to the best 10 years of my working life - and almost wish
they'd dumped me 10 years earlier.
--
Pete Cresswell

Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

Been RIF'd a number of times. On to the next job.
Seems to happen about 3-5 times per career for most people.
Do what you can to have an income until a better job comes along.
You will find another job doing something. Doing "what" is not
too important. If you can't find one there, then start looking
in Texas. Texas is booming and there is no income tax.

On 4/19/2014 10:33 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is
that I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

Been RIF'd a number of times. On to the next job.
Seems to happen about 3-5 times per career for most people.
Do what you can to have an income until a better job comes along.
You will find another job doing something. Doing "what" is not
too important. If you can't find one there, then start looking
in Texas. Texas is booming and there is no income tax.

Over my career, after the Navy, I've had several employers, a number of
contract jobs, etc. I quit two of the jobs in frustration, got laid off
a couple or three times, and even fired for doing what I was hired to do!

Quitting did play havoc with my retirement accounts, in that I had to
use them to live on between jobs. On the other hand, I'm retired, with
a retirement income that is about what I was clearing before I retired
due to ill health, and a decent nest egg to boot.

On 04/19/2014 06:17 PM, Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.



If you are fairly young you will get another job. The real problem is
for those who lose their job when they are over 60.

Paul wrote:

Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

On your resume, don't say "you were fired". Say you
were "declared redundant". There's a big difference
between "fired for cause", whereas "declared redundant"
is the new normal. Your job is in India or China now.

Or "workforce reduction". Even "laid off" is far better than "fired":
one means they're having problems while the other is they had problems
with YOU.

The library has books on writing resumes to guide on what euphemisms or
terms are best to use to describe your current employment status. If
you're still working, there's no need to tell anyone that you will be
losing employment later. It hasn't happened yet. Resumes are about
your employment history, not about what might happen in the future.

Jon wrote:

In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates for a
long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that I'll be
free. Feel like going out of jail.

Start checking the bus schedules to visit your local library to use
their computers. During summer when all the kids are out of school, fat
chance on finding an unused workstation.

You say nothing about having your own computer. If you have one and it
has wifi capability, search online for free wifi hotspots. Your library
might have wifi so you can bring in your laptop and use their network
(after they give you a temp login).

If all you need is e-mail access (or limited online time), NetZero still
has a dial-up plan for free up to 10 hours per month. So make sure you
configure your local e-mail client to NOT go online when you load it so
you can manually choose when to poll for new e-mails. Do NOT use
webmail clients as you'll waste a lot more time reading your e-mails
online than to yank them to a local e-mail client where you can read and
compose new emails while offline. Same for yanking newsgroup posts,
going offline to read them and to compose replies, and going quick
online to push out replies. You could use those 10 hours for web
surfing but it won't take long to eat up 10 hours. NetZero also has a
free wifi Internet service but I haven't bothered to look at it.

Start searching online now on "free Internet" to see your options.
Considering your statements, guess you aren't eligible for unemployment
benefits from your gov't.

On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:17:28 +0100, Jon wrote:

In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates for a
long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that I'll be
free. Feel like going out of jail.

I've had jobs like that, so I hope your next job is like some of my
better post job-loss jobs. And soon...

I said "post job-loss" to use a neutral term, after all the discussion
in this thread about how to describe a firing :-)

In my own job hunting I've tended to stick to terms like "laid off" for
similar reasons to what people said here.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Paul has written on 4/19/2014 8:40 PM:
Jon wrote:
In May I'll be fired from business. No more free internet and updates
for a long time. I don't know what to do next. A positive thing is that
I'll be free. Feel like going out of jail.

On your resume, don't say "you were fired". Say you
were "declared redundant". There's a big difference
between "fired for cause", whereas "declared redundant"
is the new normal. Your job is in India or China now.

Paul


In my day, we used to say we were RIFFED.