Get Over on getting Layoff from Work
April 5th, 2008 by admin
The first few hours and days of a job layoff or lost finances, every part of your life is in turmoil; it’s hard to focus on anything except the loss and how it’s going affect the family. The purpose of First Aid Strategy Praying is the immediate attention to a hurting individual or family, it begins the healing process.
When our family experienced the third financial loss and third job layoff we were devastated. We had been accustomed to prayer, accustomed to applying God’s Word to our life, nevertheless, when the layoff occurred we needed comfort and peace.
Do to current economic conditions many families are over-wrought and distraught. “Will we have money to buy food, gasoline, will we be able to keep our home?” You might be overwhelmed at the thought of job hunting in a bad economy.
Was yesterday your last day of work? Here are some things you might observe about yourself during the first week of a layoff. Many people who have written about job layoffs have never experienced the pain of a sudden layoff. Some have written from a theory position.
After three corporate layoffs, there are some aspects of a layoff that only one who has been down that road too often traveled is able to share.
The Layoff Lament Characterized by:”Emotional Hemorrhage” - “How am I going to survive, how am I going to tell my family, how are we going to survive. I can’t believe this has happened to me.” Even when you have pre-knowledge of the layoff, you are still anxious at the actual event.
Moments of Quiet Anger
Moving through the anger phase, with its co-conspirator bitterness, especially if your job loss meant loss of retirement funds due to accounting errors, bankruptcy, or theft. Or not even that dramatic; a security guard escorting you to your car; it is incredibly humiliating. In my husband’s case, he got the job for the security guard. Those things hurt.
Moments of Quiet Hysteria
Despair, discouragement, doubt, and not necessarily in that order, flood your thoughts on the drive home; you are anxious about telling your family.
A Moment of Quiet Restoration- With Your Family
Dad was broken-hearted, it was the third layoff but this one happened at age forty. The children and I loved on him; we prayed together as a family for him that first night. Victory!
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