| I've been fired. A "great learning experience" is not how I would put it, but I did learn some stuff. * if the company doesn't have a good reason to fire you, like you just don't get along with people, they often give you a sweet departure package you wouldn't get if you just quit. I guess to prevent a lawsuit. * you can collect unemployment, which you can't do if you quit. * few people hiring really care if you got fired. nobody even asked me what happened. I had competing job offers in days. * this happens all the time, even moreso in the upper ranks of management. in fact, it seems the higher up you are, the better deal it is to get fired. often times when a C level exec gets fired, they get a severence package which allows them to not work for a year or so. * the person who is probably going to be most bummed is your mom. The main lesson I learned though, is that it's another one of the long standing bullshit lines about things that will destroy your life that simply aren't true. It's in the same league as smoking pot, dropping out of college, and not paying your taxes on time. Nothing very dramatic happens, and it's pretty easy to recover. It's disappointing, in a way. It's a better story if you're on the brink of disaster and come back. In reality it's just a temporary setback, and you probably end up with a better job at the next place. |