I lost my job today, and I’m delighted. It’s a huge opportunity to take the next step: a six-figure salary, and I might exceed it. Of course, the ideal route would have been making millions for me and my employer so he could retire and travel the world and I could run his business globally, but it didn’t turn out that way. But the sky is still golden.
So, how do we find the gold in any dark sky? It is simple: we frequently set our goals, even impossible lofty ones, in writing. These goals serve as a roadmap out of the dark woods. Without that roadmap, we are lost, stuck in the forest, without direction, in potential despair. Alice in Wonderland asks the Cheshire Cat which way she should go, and the cat asks where she is heading, a question for which she has no answer. And the cat says it doesn’t matter where she goes if she has no destination. My goal is to make six figures, and my job loss is a stepping stone in the right direction. When we set goals, we are on a sure path to reaching our destinations.
Although I lost my job, my employer wants me to keep working for him one day a week. That may not seem good, but it’s an excellent fortune because now I can access a higher-paying job and have an extra $20,000 yearly from weekend work. And a company I applied for yesterday that pays $75,000 a year said I’m too qualified for their work. So, I aim to reach more than six figures now, which is my goal, and then after that, my goal is a quarter million, and after that, half a million. Why not? Big goals are exciting and fun, making the losses more endurable. We can see the silver lining more easily within any bad news if we know what the silver should look like—in other words, if we set goals. We don’t need to know how to achieve our goals, but we should make them so enormous that they excite us.
I also contacted a friendly founder of an international firm, and he encouraged me to apply for a job role. So, today, I applied, but before that, I immediately went online to Services Canada, figured out my maximum EI earnings for each month along with the cap for additional income earnings, took my budget and eliminated and canceled any expenditures that were not essential. And the revenue looks sufficient, although I’ll have to shift to beans instead of prawns and make other adjustments. In other words, I’ll skinny down physically, but I’ll have access to EI for nearly a year. However, the goal is to land a high-paying job at six figures as soon as possible.
Looking for jobs when we’ve got lots of education feels like a fun shopping spree. We can look at the best careers with the highest pay, even lifetime pensions, confident that we’ve got the required skills with our degrees, certificates, etcetera, and merrily place these six-figure jobs into our shopping baskets of goodies.
So, when we get slapped with bad news, often, it’s the best thing that could have happened. We may even know that the change is somehow part of God’s divine plan, a heralding of where we are meant to grow or who we are meant to meet. The worst punches often bring the most significant rewards. Indeed, losing our jobs can be as joyous as winning a shopping bonanza prize, where anything we can fit in our shopping cart within one hour is ours to keep. Losing our jobs can bring us incredible joy as gigantic goals serve as our roadmaps, bringing us out of the dark woods and onto sunlit highways to the promised land.
