Fired for Now: Getting fired, laid off, and hired again

I just submitted the most awkward, weird, nervous-making, guilt-ridden invoice I ever have. (If you can assign attributes to an invoice.) That’s because I’m invoicing for work not done.

Since losing my job in November, I managed to secure a 3-month contract gig at an advertising agency. I’m a writer and I’ve been brought on to, well, write. But here’s the thing: there’s not a whole lot for me to do right at this moment. I’ve just completed 2 weeks during which I’ve been paid to essentially warm a chair. And at a time when thousands are losing their jobs, this … Continue Reading

By the time you read this, I may be frantically searching for cheap parking downtown, or being walked around an unfamiliar office being introduced to strangers (who hopefully are not strange), or trying to figure out the closest place to get a decent cup of coffee, or just feeling quite out of place.

I start a 3-month contract gig today, so technically, I’m no longer unemployed.

Now I don’t exactly have secure employment either. So I figure that means I can keep writing firedfornow.com.

In the past 37 days since I was fired from my last job, I’ve written 30 posts to this … Continue Reading