[mrnoodle]

BigV, having been on the receiving end of a firing that I wasn't expecting, I know something about what you're feeling. I didn't handle it well, and in retrospect, the biggest mistake I made was allowing the defeat to sap my energy. It's okay to wallow around the house in your underwear for a day or two, but the sooner you rejoin society, the better off you'll be.

Do something -- any job. Swallow your stung pride (and this is the hardest part), and find ANYTHING that requires you to wake up in the morning, put on your shoes, and get somewhere by 8 a.m. to work for someone. Not a career-type job, necessarily, but something. You need the ritual, or else a worse ritual will take its place: sleeping till 11, drinking gallons of coffee, smoking bales of weed, surfing the net and playing games until 3 a.m. Or maybe that was just my ritual. But you get the idea.

When you're not working at the car wash/retail establisment/lawnmowing service, get your resume together and spam the living daylights out of every company you can think of. It feels nice to be able to quit the Walmart job to get back into your profession. The important thing is that when you go to interview, you have that aura of confidence and determination....hard to come by if you are slumming on the couch between interviews.


You can pull out of this. Good luck.