The end of the week comes around and an invitation arrives in your online calendar for an all hands meeting on Monday morning. Speculation is extensive. What is going on? Are we canning the current project? Are jobs on the line? It is a long weekend.
Monday comes – finally! The top bosses attend the all hands meeting – it must be serious then! Yes it is. They are advising staff of the closure of the site in six months’ time and every job is at risk of redundancy. Shock sets in. The whole site will be closed. Around two hundred people looking for work. It is a horror story come true.
There you were, doing a sterling job for the business, paying your mortgage and household bills, running a nice car and in an instant somebody else has pulled the rug from under your feet. You are annoyed, hurt, confused, but you realize that you must pick yourself up and decide what your next course of action will be.
It may be that you make up your mind you are never going to put yourself in this spot again, and one way to do this would be to Work From Home, for yourself. You have many abilities and it is important to be confident about them when your career bubble has just exploded. At a time when the Internet Business is gathering pace, you may find the dream Online Jobs are just waiting for you.
While you are still in negotiation with your current employer, it would be an ideal chance to re-train, so that by the time you are out of work, you are ready to begin your Internet Business and can hit the ground running. Hopefully your redundancy payout will enable you to spend a little time building up your contacts and being paid for any work you have done to date. You may even find that you have found a niche market and can afford to offer Online Jobs to some of your ex-colleagues who also want to be able to Work From Home, but perhaps do not like the idea of needing to set up in business for themselves. You are very much aware of the abilities you all have and know how best to use these.
When you are looking at your Internet Business opportunities, it may be that you decide to use your current abilities in a totally new way. You were always praised for your presentation skills, your ability to present openly and in a way that obtained the attention of your audience. Could these abilities be used in any of the Online Jobs available? You were busy writing web pages for your company. Perhaps it would be possible to turn around this skill and look at jobs which involve search engine optimisation.
The main thing to remember right now is that you do have abilities which can be used outside of your current career. This is sometimes difficult to remember when you have worked for the same business for a number of years. Exclude nothing. If you wish to continue in your current style of work, then make sure your CV is up to date and keep applying. If you decide you would rather Work From Home then look at all the options open to you, find a job you are really going to enjoy doing and put in the time and effort to make it work.
Whatever happens, think on it is the company that is closing, or downsizing, not you personally who are being sacked and you have a good deal to offer in your next job.
