Unemployed? What to do next? Tips how to stay motivated, busy & connected!!

Well you are laid off, now what are you going to do?? All news says its gloomy out there and some of them are audacious to hope even in this situation. What are you going to do next? Find a job right? Before that you need to prepare yourself and heal your inner-self and confidence !! Start believing that there is still light out there.

I have made a list of things that you can do for your personal and emotional health after you are laid off and are struggling to keep it up to your own-self.

1. Reach out to people for help. Most often all of us have enough self pride that we might appear fragile or weak and torn after laid-off if we might ask for help. But that is not the case. Friends and family are the people who are the most supportive. You will see that even those family members that you don’t gel with so well are more supportive than you thought they would be.

2. Reach out to friends and your well-wishers. I don’t think that I have to go rounds and rounds about friends. They are just great human beings. They will sogg you up with your and their tears and yet make you smile at the very next minute. They crack stupid jokes that you know are stupid and you know that they are making an attempt to make you smile, but you smile anyways. Same goes for the well-wishers. They know why they are going to be there for you, when you need the most and when you have almost no one to depend on. Just reach out to them, talk to them in general or whine ( if you choose to do this), and I guarantee that you will feel atleast 10 times better.

3. It was just a job and your world hasn’t crumble just yet. Read this line once more, read it as many times you need to before you can get this past your head. For most people in this materialistic world, job and source of income is very important and so was for me. But all doesn’t end there. You have a wonderful life that the Lord gave it you. Now, this door to make it even more beautiful and fun, might have closed for now, if you work and struggle through it, you will find another as well. Here is a quote that I read years ago in one of the books by Robert H Schuller
“Every opportunity is unique. If you like something so much that you want to follow it even when it has passed by, then you should. But remember this that this second time the same opportunity is not going to be the same. It can be better or worse. You will have to pay a different price for this opportunity this time. Now the question is that are you ready to pay the price for it?”
Are you ready to pay the price to find another job? Are you willing to work your way up again as you did before? Are you ready to stand in lines for interviews and mocks? Have you had a chance to look up to your resume? These are some of the questions that I would you to ask yourself and make your mind before you go out again and try for new jobs.

4. Get involved. That’s so big that I can’t explain how big. While I was growing up, my folks always told me this: “Your mind is like a page. If you write good things, you will get good things and vice –versa. Alternatively empty mind is devil’s playground.” This implies that mind will keep on thinking, if you direct it to do constructive things, it will work for that, if you let it loose, you are doomed very soon. So get involved. For example, in my case in Rochester, NYI joined Rochester Young Professionals group! They are not really big, but have size-able membership and all of the them are young people ( mostly ha ha). There are monthly events and weekly events. It is upto you how much and where you have to get involved. It helps in organizing networking events and building professional relationships as well. So, get out and get involved.

5. Take a minute or two and also a paper and pencil. Remember all of those things that you always wanted to do, but didn’t do till now because of time commitment or job involvement. Take time to hone the skills what you got and what you always wanted to get. Personally I got involved in some of the following things.

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