What I learned from losing my job
Painful, but I found ways to look for the positives...
Today is May 7, 2023.
In six weeks, I will be out of job. I am a forensic chemist. But, the government is shutting down our laboratory.
My son Koji would catch me sometimes staring in space, hypnotized by the vast space in front of me. He would ask ‘you okay dad?’.
I would always re-assure him that I’m good. He understands that I will be losing my job, and I also assured him that we have enough money for the next year, so no worries.
My wife lost her job too, as a scientist from Pfizer, during the time when the tech sectors laid off several of Amazon and Google’s engineers.
Without Pfizer’s severance package, life will be a little different.
Life is like a turn signal…
Last January, I attended a free seminar by Tony Robbins. It was a live, free seminar that you can within the confort of your home. It was called the ‘Unshakeable Challenge’.
In the seminar, Tony recounted a story about a scene when two guys were checking if the lights on the trailer attached to a pick up truck was working.
When the driver stepped on the break, the guy behind the trailer said, “yap, it’s working”
The driver then said, ‘I’m using the turn signal, can you check if it’s working?’
The guy from behind the trailer truck said OKAY. After observing the lights, he reported:
‘It’s working….’
‘Now it’s not…’
‘It’s working…’
‘Now it’s not…’
When the story was told, Tony said it sounded funny but later on realized that life is like that:
Life works…
then not…
But this is the moment that that’s how life works…
Life happens for you, not to you…
In 2013, the company that I was working with shut down. Then in 2017, I lost my job, then this year, it’s happening again.
Here I realized, the reason, in hindsight, that these things happen, is that for me to grow.
These were happening for me in order for me to grow, professionally and financially.
I became so relax on my situation that God or Universe knowck me out from my comfort zone and told me, move on.
I have 3 interviews next week, some of them are supervisory jobs. I think I’m ready to handle those demands, that’s why God pushed me to losing my job.
