Disruptions.
From the same chapter, “Why Careers Are like Real Estate Markets”:
“Those of us who have been in transition (between jobs) can tell you that when you are blind-sided it’s not fun.”
Major disruptions in our lives force us to change our normal habits.
A widespread and prolonged economic disruption across industries dictates …
- where and how you retire,
- the value of your house,
- where you live,
- your children’s education and
- career choices,
- your hobbies,
- whether your are starting,
- buying, or
- selling a business,
- your estate and
- tax planning, and
- even your charitable giving.
We know from change experts that we respond to a job loss in one of two ways.
The first is a version of walking the plank.
We’re pushed off a cliff into the valley of despair — the death-and-dying model — of
- shock,
- bargaining,
- denial,
- anger,
- depression, and
- finally acceptance.
Because we naturally practice selective filtering to focus on business as usual, we miss the clues that suggest just how close we’ve come to the edge of the cliff or plank.
Then we’re falling through space.