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{weblog_name} - Looking in the Mirror
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You’ve lost your job.  Are you going to tell your mother?  You’ve achieved success in your chosen career, rising to a position that gave you a comfortable income and a sense of worth.  Suddenly you don’t have enough money to pay your daughter’s next tuition bill.  You don’t even have enough to buy a winter coat for your son or go out to dinner with your spouse.  After investing years of education, work, and perhaps even leadership in your field, now, when you look in the mirror, you’re asking, “Who am I?”  These days, we all know someone who’s been laid off.  Maybe you are that someone.  But what we may not fully grasp is how dramatically losing a job affects how we view ourselves, and how we think others see us.  To what extent is our identity tied… read more