Layoff: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
At the age of 50, I was laid off.
It was a Thursday morning in August of 2013 and it came on a conference call along with hundreds of co-workers. I had been working in one way or another since the age of 13 â babysitting, apple picking, camp counselor, journalist. It was the first time I had ever been involuntarily out of work.
Did I mention it happened while I was technically on vacation? Yep. I had to dial in to a conference call to lose my job while at the beach on Cape Cod. Oh, Corporate America.</