These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 8: Life Painkillers

This week: Loss of Your Job

Symptoms: Feeling as though you won’t be able to secure your next meal.

Diagnosis: Getting fired from your job, regardless of the polite terms other people use in front of you to describe the incident.

Painkiller:

• Remember that you were surviving before getting that job.

• Take it as an opportunity to go for a better job.

• Implement on the spot a plan to squeeze your spending.

• Utilize your past relationships account to find a new job carefully and wisely.

• Introduce yourself to encourage those expected to help you get a better job as an added value for those who will hire you.

Treatment:

• Do not rush to accept the fastest-arriving job opportunity without a careful evaluation.

• Focus on seizing this forced chance of getting a better job.

• If you are forced to accept a less-satisfying job opportunity, make sure it is temporary with a clearly specified and strict time frame.

• It is not necessarily the last tough experience. Clearly study the lessons learned and be better prepared for possible sudden job-loss experiences in the future.

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Dahab’s books are available on Goodreads and Booktasters are promoting them. This is the link to a trailer on “Damn the Novel,” his first book translated into English.