The following is this month's question and answer as printed in the Professional Forum in the Lynchburg News and Advance newspaper. The response is written by G. Benton Livesay, Jr.,  Ph.D. Question: What advice can you provide for someone who has been fired from their job?
Answer: For good reason or not, getting fired can be devastating. It is often a solitary experience that can be difficult to handle emotionally as well as financially. Platitudes about making lemonade usually aren’t that helpful by themselves, so I’ll skip them here. Tory Johnson was someone who was fired early in her career and wrote Fired to Hired: Bouncing Back from Job Loss to Get to Work Right Now. The book can be obtained very inexpensively from Amazon.com for under $5. Her story and her advice are well worth a read. For her, it was the best thing that could have happened to her.
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