Thousands of people accepting their job offers & the same day somewhere thousands of people get fired.

Emotions: Happy vs Unhappy!

Why does this happen? How do I relate to this topic? What should we do to get out of it? How should we not worry all the time? Why should you not worry about it? How to find better sustainable options? How can we sit relax & plan our retirement & secure our future? 

I am going to cover all of these things in this story that I faced personally…

Hi everyone I am Vikash Jha, I am a creative & motivated person, My goal is to come up with some valuable information for you that will help you somewhere.

This is my life story around 2017 to 2019 that I am going to share with you:

One day I got fired! Unexpectedly!

I was very sad, a little scared demotivated and started finding other options with full sadness & tears in my eyes. I was hopeless & I felt very down, how this can happen to me?

I went downstairs from my office without my laptop, my favourite pen tab and my cute office bag. I only held with one white paper termination letter with a one-month cheque. 

After 4 to 5 years of freelance business, I started my full-time job journey with a seed-funded startup company. They offered me well & I accepted it. That time my mindset was like an entrepreneur, I was talking to my CEO  like I was talking to my own clients & I was doing a job with full ownership & full-on creativity. I applied all of my knowledge to the job that I learned during freelance business such as how to manage a team, how manage creative assets and faster work deliverables. My key role was content management, managing a team & deliver assets on time. I was very very happy about that job & I found that job was secure, well paid and I can stay here longer. 

The situation changed I got married and my liabilities and responsibilities increased & at the same time I started getting news about the loss of funding in my current start-up company that I joined only a year ago, people started looking out for it & getting offers & joining new companies. 

In my situation, I wanted to stay longer & create some impact on the business & its growth but because of these hard situations things were getting changing inside the company & I have no room to do more things instead of searching for the next opportunity, everybody around me started looking out for job change, the negative conversation starts happening all around, nobody was talking about works & the negativities also started holding me all around. 

Because of this situation, I also started feeling bad & getting nervous about my future & growth. That time I realized one year back when I joined this company that time I was on the route of daily risks where I have to find clients daily, deliver their work daily & getting paid without any security & I wasn’t nervous anytime time but right now after just one year of spending in the full-time job my behave was changed & I also started doing behave like a normal daily job worker & getting worried about what will be the next, how I will service if I will lose this job? One day one of my managers came to me & told me! Hey Vikash, what are you doing here please go & search next job, don’t waste your time doing work for this company. I assumed the CEO also wants the same & I started a job search & got the next one, the next hike and the next city. 

In just one month I got a new job in a new city, it is called Indian silicon valley, Bangalore. It was also a series A funded startup that launched many games & I was assigned to do a market of one of them. I started working in a marketing team, started writing briefs also acted in some in-app features, my voice went for a radio jingle & I am quite famous in my circle & among colleagues. People started to recognize that my face is in that gaming app. I was very excited to do new kinds of jobs & started learning to work on larger budgets & goals. In the past few months, I worried a lot because I got just married, my responsibility increased, I was supposed to lose my job etc. During the period of marriage happiness, I went through worry ness about the job but suddenly after marriage my life changed in just a few months, I got a high-paying job in a new city & started working with new colleagues, living in highly rented apartment & my life was just like a chill. A few months later I started listening to the same news about the company started running out of funding, the same situation started, people started looking out for new jobs and some of them were terminated suddenly. I was in hope that my work is very good and I can't be out or terminated from this job, I was a valuable employee that I thought at that time. But the company fired approx 40 people in bulk & on that list, I was one of them with the white termination paper where they have politely written “Experience Letter” They asked me to resign & they will give me the experience letter instantly with a one-month cheque & also they will help to find a job. After moving down I was in mid-road, wanting to go home but with this news, I don't want to go. 

The main positive thing in my life is my wife. She always being happy with me in every situation & encourage me about my career & growth. When I came with that letter she told me it happened with you to find again a new opportunity & growth but I was hopeless. New city, new life, highly rented apartment, car loans etc. 

At this time I didn't start finding a job, my wife picked up my phone and applied to some company behalf of me & suddenly in a few days I got a new offer in the same city & that was a unicorn level of a start-up. I joined this new company with 2x the benefits that I got in my last company. 

Again life emotions changed, I was delighted and my growth and position were higher in this company. After spending a good time with my colleagues and teams a few years later again I started getting news of layoffs…

So, tell me:

Why does this happen? How I’m relating to this topic? What should we do to be out of it? How we should not worry all time? Why you should not worry about it? How to find better sustainable options? How we can sit relax & plan our retirement & secure our future? 

I’m going to tell you only one thing that you should always remember. Life is full of ups & downs, stay in it like you are staying in river rafting & be a good rafter. Also wear a life jacket so that if you are jumping into the river you can be safe.

The raft can be handled with only experience and practice. After one to two times being in this situation, I understand this will come & go, but keep going with it and control your emotions and fear. Create your impact with good work till last in the company, be out of the negativity and accept the situation. That situation doesn’t happen intentionally, that happens based on the market and the company's growth and revenue situation. So, instead of spending time with negative conversations, try to come up with good solutions for yourself and prepare for the next.

So, Your life jacket is only your emergency savings so save it. Whenever this situation will come that fund will support you to be safe and control your fear. 

Remember, Other thousands of companies are waiting for you to join at the same time when you are getting fired…

The Key Learnings:

1. Life is full of ups and downs, you always move up and have to say bye to your down.
2. Learn from your experience, be in a positive environment and prepare yourself for the next.
3. Start saving your emergency funds regularly, it will help you in your hard situation.

Stay Tuned:
Vikash Jha.