It happened to me and it came out of the blue. On December 1, 2001, my supervisor took me out to a late lunch along with another supervisor. It did seem a bit odd that both supervisors were coming along, but I really did not think much about it - - UNTIL we got to the restaurant and sat down.
My immediate supervisor looked across the table at me and said, "You are laid off as of today and your pay and benefits will stop on December 31st. Please deliver all company files and property to the local office in Vancouver within the next 24 hours".
This event was totally unexpected. My sales numbers were good, in fact, they were very good. I had actually set some recent sales records within the company that had not previously been achieved by anyone.
Why did this happen? Well, as you know, in the corporate world people are numbers and stats on a computer printout in some office somewhere. When corporate decides to downsize because of a stressed economy there is no human consideration given. Our country had just experienced "911" and there was a lot of panic going on at the time. The particular company I worked for depended heavily upon the manufacturing sector primarily in the States of Washington & Oregon. Many of these companies had themselves begun to downsize and, as a result, were gradually becoming less and less dependent upon the services of the company I was working for. It was a classic example of the "domino effect".
My first reaction was a total lack of feeling -- as if what had just happened was not for real. As I made the 100 mile drive toward home that evening it began to hit me that I was unemployed. It also began to hit me that I was in my late 50's and the prospects for finding another job as good as the one I had just lost were slim and probably next to none.
Thank God over the previous few years, since 1996, I had been playing around on the internet to try to learn how to make money with my computer. There were some successes, but there were also even more times in which I spent more money than I made. I went on to a couple of other sales jobs up until December, 2007, none of which compared with the job I had lost. As of December, 2007, I was laid off again and knew, this time around, I had no further desire to go back into the corporate work force.
It was at this juncture that I applied what I had learned about the internet and began making a full-time living from my own internet businesses. Currently I am earning more money than at any time in my life WITHOUT leaving home using nothing but my computer and my telephone. I am also teaching others to do the same.
If you have recently lost a job or have faced up to the possibility that this could happen to you, please feel free to contact me about what I am currently doing. I would be happy to share with you how you do NOT have to be totally dependent upon an employer or working for someone else. You can have your own home-based business and make money working from your own home. You can be your own boss.
You may contact me, Larry Owen, at 541-752-6291 between the hours of 9am - 9pm Pacific Time, Mon. - Sat.
Larry Owen, Internet Marketing Consultant (15 years experience)
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