Losing a job involuntarily at any time isn’t fun. Been there, done that and have the emotional scars to prove it. Losing a job due to company cut backs during a tough economy is even worse. And if you’re a sales person there might not be a silver lining, but there is good reason to have a lot more hope for your short and long term future prospects than the average worker.
After all, you see it on the news quite often. Job cuts, unemployment rising, and right now the economy is, despite what a lot of us would like to believe, still consuming jobs at an alarming rate. It’s arguable whether we are pulling out of the recession or not. To some economists it’s arguable as to whether or not we ever pulled out of the down turn created by the Dot Com bubble nearly a decade ago. Still, the headlines on TV and in the paper tend to focus on the labor force and the manufacturing jobs at the hardworking all American companies who produce the goods and services our economy consumes. Yes, I know those are the larger numbers and it makes for better headlines and helps to sell papers and advertising. In most cases though, the news of the day never mentions and systematically seems to forget guys and girls who make the cash register ring and the shipping departments bustle. No matter how you explain this oversight, perhaps the truth of the matter is that people in the sales force are in a better position than the average non-sales person who loses their [...]