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How to Turn Getting Fired Into an Opportunity

Learn How To Create Opportunities From Unemployment!

Jerreme Wade
4 min readSep 7, 2022

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Being fired is never a fun experience. It can be embarrassing, discouraging, and make you feel like a failure. Losing your job doesn’t have to be the end of the world. In fact, getting fired can actually be a blessing in disguise. It can give you the opportunity to reassess your career goals, learn from your mistakes, and come back stronger than ever. I recently got fired in August 2022. That’s right, last month.

I’m still figuring things out. However, I knew I had to fall back in love with my passion. Writing. I thought to myself, why did I actually get fired? I didn’t want to quit my job. It was the complete opposite. I wanted to leverage my job. So how do you turn termination from your job into an opportunity? Here are 4 steps to help you do just that!

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First, don’t take it personally. It’s easy to take termination from your job personally. After all, it feels like a personal attack on your life. It’s important to remember that being let go from a job is almost always a business decision, not a personal one…

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Jerreme Wade
Jerreme Wade

Written by Jerreme Wade

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