How I'm dealing with being unemployed – Week 1
The first 5 tabs open on my phone are always in this order – Google Analytics, Google Trends, the web version of Facebook for Business, my work website and Reddit. It has been a habit to go over these tabs multiple times a day in no particular order. I was in the middle of one such exercise for the third time one day when I was informed that this routine will soon have to come to an end. I had lost my job. How do you reset a schedule you've religiously practised for half a decade? There was bitterness, anger, resentment and then a realisation that without my noticing I had gradually become redundant at work. Whom do I tell first? My closest friends lead super-busy lives continents apart from me. I typed and deleted texts to most of my contacts. Then came the lack of confidence. Who had the time to deal with my trauma in this economy?! So I spent the last week taking long walks (that sometimes went on for 8+ km) questioning and answering my own worth as an employee. And I w...