Thank You for Firing Me!: How to Catch the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job

by Kitty Martini, Candice Reed

Overview

A humorous & helpful guide to bouncing back from job loss and figuring out the next step in your career path.

Unfortunately, unemployment is on the rise—leaving many people anxious about how to recreate themselves and renew their careers after being fired. This fresh, funny, and smart guide will be their life saver, providing them with the information they need to thrive even in this tight economic environment. It will help jobseekers and prospective entrepreneurs figure out what they really want to do next, understand the changing job market, and find work in growth areas such as green technology. Personal interviews with workers who changed their lives after getting laid off—and who are now doing what they love—offer additional inspiration. There’s also advice on retraining, freelancing and independent contracting, and Internet marketing options, as well as a chapter devoted specifically to women.

Praise for Thank You for Firing Me!

“This funny and energetic guidebook for the recently (or repeatedly) fired. . . . begins with a sympathetic but no-nonsense plan for picking yourself up after you’ve lost a job, and moves swiftly into the brainstorming and planning necessary to start the next—and more satisfying—career. . . . Advice on finding community and places to get help and a plethora of resources elevate this cheerful, encouraging book into an invaluable resource.” —Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402783791
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	636 KB

About the Author

Kitty Martini is a prolific writer, entrepreneur and stand-up comedian. She has developed and sold four successful businesses and has contributed articles to a variety of magazines. Candice Reed is currently a freelance travel journalist and runs a successful public relations firm, Communication Culture. She has been a ghostwriter for a former president, and has published more than 5,000 business features, personal essays and travel articles in newspapers and magazines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Part 1 Soul Searching: What to Do After You Wipe Out 1

Chapter 1 Reconnect Before you Rebound 5

Chapter 2 Getting the Most Out of Drifting 16

Chapter 3 How to Ride the Tides of the Changing Job Market 28

Chapter 4 How to Be Powerful: Reeducation for Reinvention 36

Chapter 5 Staying Afloat: Finance Your New Life 46

Chapter 6 Your Support Network: Don't Bail Out! 57

Chapter 7 Your Winning Game Plan: How to Achieve a Life You Love 64

Part 2 Job Searching: Dive into Cool Careers 71

Chapter 8 Big Waves Ahead: Hot Green Industries Coming Your Way! 73

Chapter 9 Working for Gen Y? Why Not! 88

Chapter 10 Banking on Boomers 108

Chapter 11 The Diverse Face of the Job Market 126

Chapter 12 An Endless Summer: Independents and Freelancers 144

Chapter 13 Treading Water in Creative Industries: The Art of Selling Art 158

Chapter 14 Filling the Money Pipeline: Internet Marketing Options 166

Chapter 15 Ride the Worldwide Wave: Go Global 177

Conclusion 185

Resource Guide: Catching the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job 189

Notes 218

Index of Companies and Web Sites 224

General Index 229

Editorial Reviews

This funny and energetic guidebook for the recently (or repeatedly) fired from entrepreneur and comedian Martini and journalist Reed begins with a sympathetic but no-nonsense plan for picking yourself up after you’ve lost a job, and moves swiftly into the brainstorming and planning necessary to start the next—and more satisfying—career. Readers are challenged to answer the all-important question “What are you passionate about?” and strategize from there with an eye to becoming a self-employed independent contractor. Martini and Reed investigate such potential growth markets as green industries and the Gen Y market as well as the new outcropping of nontraditional jobs for women. Advice on finding community and places to get help and a plethora of resources elevate this cheerful, encouraging book into an invaluable resource. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

For readers who have lost their jobs, are thinking about venturing forth as freelancers or consultants, or are searching for a new career, this is an invigorating and very helpful book. Martini is actually a stand-up comedian—"and an expert on being fired"—while Reed is a veteran freelance journalist. Their book is clear, enthusiastic, and, most importantly, loaded with direct, uncluttered advice with tons of specifics. A resource guide in the back lists almost 30 pages' worth of web sites and some print materials, corresponding to the chapter topics, which range from how to develop a support network and how to tune into Gen Y job networking to specifics on global, artistic, and green industries, among others. A great choice for most job hunters.—Margaret Heilbrun, Library Journal

Library Journal