Job Loss & Career Transition
Articles on Job Loss & Career Transition
Writing about layoffs, unemployment, and the identity disruption that comes with losing a career. From people who understand what it costs beyond income.
Job Loss and Identity: When What You Do Is Part of Who You Are
For many people, their job title was also their identity. When a job ends, especially suddenly, the question underneath everything is: who am I without this?
The Job Search Is Emotional Labor — and Nobody Warns You About That
Applying for jobs while grieving a job is its own specific kind of exhausting. Why the job search takes so much more out of you than it should, and why that is not weakness.
When the New Job Doesn't Fix It
You got the new job. You thought that would be the turning point. It was not. Why the practical solution does not automatically resolve the emotional one.
Layoff Grief Is Real Grief
Losing a job to a layoff triggers the same neurological response as other major losses. The reason it hurts this much is not weakness. It is how loss works.
Who Am I Without My Job
Your job title was never just a job title. For many people, it was a core part of how they answered the question of who they are. What happens when it is gone?
AI Took My Job and Now I Do Not Know Who I Am
Being replaced by a technology you helped build, or just saw coming, is a specific kind of loss with a specific kind of grief. And it is happening to a lot of people right now.