Only yesterday I mentioned the importance of having a plan ‘b’ in case of being made redundant.

I’ve received some great comments, so thank you.

Watch this video (only 2 minutes) and see if it changes your thoughts!

Video Transcript:

Person 1: I got to work in the morning, uh, 10 o’clock phone call, uh, and an email.

Person 2: There was no sign that anything was coming, I was as busy as I would have been on and in the other day.

Curtis Glade: We’re kind of joking about it nervously but at the back of my mind it was like it’s, a distinct possibility

Person 4: I mean everybody’s lapse were coming.

Kevin Carnes: The jobs that we got easily before were a little harder to come by.

Person 6: You just could feel it coming down, you just feel everyone’s assholes just tightening up.

Curtis Glade: And I got this little, you know, beep on my phone

Bob Wicks: And the HR person came in with their hatchet and closed my door

Curtis Glade: They’re like, yeah, I’m sorry, it’s time…

Person 8: Yeah, they let me down?

Person 1: We can’t keep you

Person 8: This is not going to work out

Person 4: It’s not you, it’s not your work

Person 6: And I was so pissed because I didn’t see it coming

Bob Wicks: It was a tough day

Person 9: If I wouldn’t have seen the writing on the wall, reality for me would have been that I have to leave the country.

Person 10: All I could eek out was, do you know where I could find a box?

Curtis Glade: I think deep down it was sort of a liberating feeling

Person 10: Having left the ad agency world just gave me time to do other stuff in my life

Person 11: The day that I walked out, I walked into my own company.

Person 2: I recognized something has changed in me.

Curtis Glade: I think a lot of people have this list of, if I can only do this.

Kevin Carnes: Because I had so much time, I was able to take up anything really pretty seriously.

Person 1: You’ve got time to plan your daughter’s wedding, you finally see your kids again, you eat 3 meals a day.

Person 6: I got laid off and I took my clothes off, posted nude with a bearskin rug and started a website called malecopywriter.com.

Person 2: I got laid off and I changed my gender

Person 4: I got laid off and I started doing my life’s work

Curtis Glade: My name is Curtis Glade and I’m a documentary film maker

Bob Wicks: My name is Bob Wicks and I am a coffee roaster.

Person 8: I’m a wholistic healthcaster and yoga instructor.

Kevin Carnes: My name is Kevin Carnes and I’m an artist.

Curtis Glade: I got laid off and I’m finally doing something that I think matters…

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