Grieving the loss of a job and career

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My field dried up and died while I was a SAHM. I'm now working on setting up a home-based business in a related, but different field. It's a hard slog, and I feel very dispirited and discouraged much of the time. All my old colleagues have left the field or if they are still there, are hanging on by their fingernails, and say life is beyond miserable.

I'm not really grieving, though, OP. I never loved my field, just enjoyed it, but it wasn't my passion. I loved feeling competent and building up skills, and now all that experience is lost, which is so sad.

What's life all about if there are no rewards for working hard and becoming good at something? It really does feel terrible, so I suppose I am actually grieving that


loss. It will take me 20 years to build up comparable skills in my new field, and by that time I will be old indeed.

I never signed up for this. I thought I'd reap the rewards of all my hard work in my old age. Now it looks like I'm headed for nothingness.

Sheesh, buck up PP! Throughout history people have had to deal with challenges like this -- and more. Imagine living in a country where the government is overthrown or the currency is wiped out, from one day to the next.

Congrats for starting your own business. You can do this. Others have and you can too. If things work out, you will thank your lucky stars your former career, which was not your passion, let you off the hook so you could become an entrepreneur and be your own boss. It's hard to do things like that without a reason and life gave you one. Go for it.

[Anonymous]

Designer of non-pink clothes for female babies?

[Anonymous]

really, this thread is meaningless without knowing the jobs. But I love the guesses!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Designer of non-pink clothes for female babies?

Did you ever have a career or was this just an idea for a business that never got off the ground?

[Anonymous]

Telecomm. An industry sucking for yeeeeears..

[Anonymous]

Newspaper delivery?

[Anonymous]

Obviously its Journalism, guys!

[Anonymous]

I am a former journalist who managed to get out and find something new but yes I mourn the loss of it. Worked so damn hard for so many years.

[Anonymous]

Vcr repair

[Anonymous]

Journalist / magazine writer, too. I found a job I like. It took years.

[Anonymous]

Buggy whip designer? Oh...I see hoop skirts.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of a post I saw on Humans of New York:

https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/689923797748390/?type=1&theater

[Anonymous]

Taxi driver?

[Anonymous]

I was denied a ts/sci clearance for my dream career - it completely ruined my career path and i grieve about it to this day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was denied a ts/sci clearance for my dream career - it completely ruined my career path and i grieve about it to this day.

Did they tell you why?