Plan for the REAL job when titles and companies go
The REAL job begins when you have lost that job title and have exited from that company. Yes, the job of living as a human in a community. Post-work professional resilience is making sure that your job title and where you work do not define and distort your personality and relationship with people.
Job titles and companies are ephemeral, analogous to the secondary school chemistry lab experiment on base and acid which produces effervescence. It erupts, then it disappears!
If you allow men and women to relate with you, through titles and companies, the day they go, you will be looking for water in the boundless ocean.
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Your personality does not expire in the minds of people even when titles and workplaces go. He arrived at the conference and everyone wanted to carry his bag. After 3 years, now retired, to the same event, everyone ignored him. Have a better attitude!