Today marks a new transition for Career Pivot. Joe O’Connor is taking over site leadership from me.
I got a new job back in May, and it’s intense. I cannot give Career Pivot the attention you deserve. Joe can. He is an actual career coach.
He has great ideas and exciting options that totally eclipse what I can offer you. I’ll let him introduce himself on Wednesday.
Today, I want to offer a personal thank you.
Thank You for Saving Me
Many people thank me for starting Career Pivot back in the dark times. For building a community of hope for a new job. A new career. A new life. For saving us from despair.
You saved me from despair too!
I was just as lost, discouraged, and desperate as you. January 31, the day I was laid off, was a dark day for me. Very dark. I know you can relate.
I woke up on February 1, hungover and wishing to disappear into my depression. Then I realized I was not alone. Layoff trauma was industry wide. There was a deep and spreading pain in all the peers and people I loved.
I started Career Pivot thinking that, at most, a dozen people would band with me in a new journey of discovery.
Wow, was I wrong!
Honestly. I Am In Your Debt.
You helped me as much - or more - than I helped you.
Focusing on your needs, on your pain, kept me from dwelling on my own. I was too busy helping you to stare at the wall, scream-crying “f**k I’m unemployed!!” over and over again, 200 times a day.
Helping you gave me purpose and motivation.
Helping you helped me.
I will always be deeply thankful for that gift. Your gift to me. Of your time, your attention, your camaraderie.
God, I’m crying writing this. Layoff trauma is so deep!
I’m Still Here Too
Joe is running Career Pivot now. It is his site. It is his show. That said, I’m still here to help.
I have a few posts in the queue that I hope Joe will publish. I definitely have more LinkedIn posts that I’ll share. And I am certainly open to chats, calls, whatever I can do to help.
We are still in this together. Whatever “this” is these days. Employed or not, we share a bond, created in good times and forged in trauma.
