Mysterious Ways: Losing Her Job Was a Godsend – Guideposts

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“A troubled marriage.” That’s what our working relationship had become, my company’s CEO told me, the morning he fired me.

 

It didn’t make any sense. Sure, we’d had some strategic differences over the way our technology consulting firm operated, but I’d spent nearly every waking minute of the past ten years helping to build the company from its infancy.

 

I’d worked 50-hour weeks, putting vacation time and family time on hold to manage one of its branch offices to profitability. My husband and I didn’t have children–I often called the office my extended family.

 

“You’re no longer a good fit here,” the CEO said, driving his message home.

 

God, why is this happening to me now? I thought when I left the office for the last time. The CEO offered me a generous severance package–six months’ pay, as long as I didn’t take another job in the same industry for that period of time. Okay–money wouldn’t be an issue. But my work had been the most important thing in my life. Now that had been taken away–and I didn’t understand why.

 

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