I’m losing my job, I’m scared, but somehow not.

I’m a scientist, a chemist to be exact. Just like any scientists and engineers, some of us works for a start-up company, hoping one day that the start-up company will be big like Google or Facebook or Pfizer.

In 2013, the company burned a lot of money with nothing in the pipeline.

We closed. Belly up.

At that time, I was scared.

Today, same thing is happening, but I’m not (somewhat not). And later, I’ll tell you how I developed my mamba, fearless mentality.

At that time though, I have a 3-year old in tow. Me and my wife, working at the same company, which was a big mistake, were both losing our jobs.

Adding salt to the wound is that we were both in a US working visa and not even a US citizen. Immigration laws are complicated, but in plain English, if we lose our jobs, we will be deported cause our working visa was tied up to the start-up company.

Life is happening for you, not to you

Pat forward today, we are both US citizens and both have jobs, until we don’t.

My wife was laid off by Pfizer. The good thing is that Pfizer gave us a good separation package that may give us a huge breathing room.

Today too, I am losing my job as a Forensic chemist for a state lab. The lab is losing it’s funding and I’m left looking for work, again.

But this time, I’m not scared. Okay, maybe a little. A little of sleeping little here and there.

But honestly, in the very end, I’m not scared so much as before. Because I look at the situation differently.

Life is happening for you, and not to you.

I realized I wasn’t growing in that job that somehow the Universe or God, whatever you believe, knock me out in my comfy life and said “Grow”.

Today, I’m looking for work that have supervisory roles and more travel and more money.

I look at the situation as good, because I have all the time to work on on-line business (which netted $120,000 last year).

Life is happening for me, not to me.

Mindshift

Now I realized that in order for me to move forward, I have to shift my mind to a different gear.

I once listened to a Navy Seal talked about not getting what you want. And he always says good in the end.

We didn’t get the grant money? Good, that means we have to work harder.

Mission cancelled? Good, that means we can train more.

Didn’t get the speed boat that we asked for? Good, that means we don’t need to be re-trained.

So, I started asking these serious questions too in my life.

Didn’t get the job that I was interviewed earlier? Good, that means I have more opportunities for way better jobs.

Or, I have more time to work on my business again (I do affiliate marketing and email marketing, btw).

Everytime you can say “Good” to an obstacle, that means you too that you are alive.

You can recalibrate, reload and do it.