Please help me. I am afraid I will lose my job tomorrow - GREAT UPDATE!! :-)

[iloverainbows]

I don't want to lose my job...

I had a a sales job a few months ago...I left because I was not happy with the company ethics...the way they wanted us to be pushy with customers...how the did not care about being good with customer service...

I went to a job I thought would be great...I was doing really well for 4 weeks...the customers liked me at the new job...I got along well with my co-workers...and then they told me to leave one day. I was really shocked and upset, I thought I had a future career there. They told me I was not gelling with the team even though they would not explain why.

A month of temp work, hardly any spare money and about 15 job interviews later I landed another job i really liked. I have been working there a month and a half. However while I have been working there, they have been getting more and more pushy to make us meet targets. Then today they took me into the office (the managers) and told me that the next day I do not meet targets, is my last day. Every day now I will be being watched. I don't even know if I will make it past tomorrow...and if I make it tomorrow...will I make it the next day? Or to the end of the week?

I don't know what to do. I am scared of being unemployed and having no money.
I dream of having my bank account full and owning a wonderful home...a fancy car...being able to go on holidays around the world to amazing places...being able to go to fancy restaraunts every week....

I have no idea how to get from here to there

And I'm mega-scared about what's to happen tomorrow

Sorry if I'm rambling. I just need some help. Please.

[Mr positive]

well for starters being scared is never a good thing! You need to just do the best you can do for right now! Have the mind set of I gell with my coworkers, I meat the targets, every customer loves me, the managers all respect me, im the best employee i can be, I ride nice cars and have nice things in life! Have the attitude of I am instead of i want! Gl superstar creater!

[angel_star]

Have faith and you can definitely be in the job and have a great growth career-wise too. Say and feel I am appreciation, I am achievement, I am exceptional productivity, I am meeting targets...You deserve happiness and success, believe that. Be grateful at the moment. Good things will follow

[iloverainbows]

Thank you both. Well, what a strange journey. I feel much more clear-headed now, and I want to share with you. Sometimes, a something can seem like a set-back...but when we step back and look at the bigger picture...it's actually a blessing! Let me share my story...

To start off with, last night I did get fired. I was not meeting the sales targets. However, everything about the experience was incredibly positive. 'Being fired...being a positive experience?' I hear you ask. I'll explain how...

I had known for the last few hours of the day that I would not be working there again (as I was clearly not hitting sales targets), and I had felt incredibly blissful, happy and free. I was stressed in that job, every day since they changed it from a customer service role into a cold-calling, target driven, sales role. In the last few hours of my day I felt blissful...free...joking...happy. The kind of feeling you get in the last hour of Friday afternoon if you have a job that you don't really enjoy. The feeling you would get as a kid at school in the last couple of hours before the bell rang, when summer holidays were about to start. I felt good. I felt, as Abraham would put it...frisky. I felt like great things were coming my way! I was laughing and joking with my co-workers, and incredibly relaxed.

At the end of the day, the operations manager and the HR manager took me into a room and told me that I was not meeting the targets, and this would be my last day. I took the news very easily. I thanked them for my time there and said it had been a great experience meeting and working with them. They, in turn, were so lovely. They told me that I was the nicest person they had ever worked with (their exact words!). They said to me if they ever had a customer care role that was in depth customer care, I would be perfect for it and they would hire me back right away. They said they were so sorry they had to end my time there as they loved working with me. The operations manager even got a bit teary and told me that she had wanted to sit next to me at the Christmas Party, and hear all about my home! (I live in England but I actually come from Australia). They were wonderful and clearly very regretful about the whole business...(it was the owner of the business that is pushing everyone there to make him more money, not the managers).

Then they said they would try and do everything to help me get a new job. This was great, because the place I worked for until yesterday was actually a career consultancy. They are in the business of helping people get jobs. Specifically, top-level executives pay them thousands of pounds for career support and advice. They re-write CVs for people. They use their networks to place people. And they could not speak highly enough of me! They asked me to send them my CV today, and they will 'jazz it up for me' - for free. The HR Manager said she will get right onto her contacts in recruitment today for me and recommend me for good jobs to everyone she can speak with. They also said they're going to give me great references, and told me that if people ask, they will tell them that I was specifically hired for a 2-month contract - not that I was 'fired'.

Anyway, that's not the end of the amazing story.
But, to step back and show you the bigger picture, I have to rewind a couple of months...

A few months ago, I worked for American Express credit cards in the UK. That was the role I spoke about before where I left because they were pushing me to sell, sell, sell! However, in that role, I spoke to people daily who earned...£50k annually...£100k annually...£500k annually...phew! At American Express, when I would speak to these people, I would hear all about their rich, extravagant lives. About the fancy holidays they went on to tropical islands. About the worldwide travel they did. I would actually get to look though their credit card statements and see the glamarous restaraunts they had been to, on a weekly (or daily) basis. I would see the expensive supermarkets they did their shopping at...and the boutique clothes stores they bought clothes at. And all that time, I was launching rockets of desire...I want to be that wealthy! But I don't know how...how do I become that wealthy? How do I get into a job that earns that much? How do they do it?

I focused a lot of what it would  feel like to have that kind of wealth, and a job that paid me so much. But the question still remained, which I kept asking - how does someone get that kind of money? - and then, I left American Express and spent some time doing other work. I was then hired by this career management consultancy about 8 weeks ago. And now I see how that 8 weeks was the universe answering my question! I have only just seen this fully last night and today. Suddenly, that job seems like...not just a job, but a classroom! I feel as though the universe said to me -

'You want to know how rich people get rich - we'll put you in an environment where you will be able to learn that. You will speak to rich people all day and look at their CVs to learn their career progression. You will be trained in how they can get a better job, how they get career progression - and you will discuss that with them for 9 hours a day for the next 8 weeks. This way you will really learn what the 'rich mindset' is, as well as the practicalities of applying that to the world, specific to the country you are living in. Further, we will sit you next to a team of people who give these people ongoing, long-term career advice and support and coaching. As you work throughout your day, you will hear the conversations they have as well, and all of it will filter into your subconcious and sit there, ready to activate for you in your career path, when you leave in 8 weeks. Not only that, but as this method of building a great career is all around networking and contacts - we will make sure the people in that organsiation love you, and they will become some of your greatest network and contacts - amazing contacts, as they themselves work in career management, HR and recruiting - therefore they have access to a massive network of people!! Once the 8 weeks is up, we will then have a team of professionals re-write your CV for your for free. We will give you two great references to put on that CV, and they will rave about you - and your contacts will start networking on your behalf to put you forward for amazing roles.'

Thank you, universe, for answering me in this way! It is amazing and I am so greateful for the position I am in now. I asked - and it was answered. I am also in a much better position, career-wise, than I was several months ago. I am also in a better position financially. Why?

First, my pay comes in shortly. The lovely managers decided that I did not need to work any notice period, so they are giving me a week's severance pay plus holiday pay. Further, we are getting the internet for free at the moment, which is great! Then...I saw my Dad last night, he was visiting  from Australia and had decided to spend the last evening here with me. When I told him about my situation he said he would help me out with rent for 3 months - which is fantastic! He also reinforced the advice and support I had learned in my time at the career consultancy. He used to make a lot of money in business and also was giving me advice about using networks and contacts to get in touch with the roles I wanted, and approaching companies directly to make a great first impression and impact.

So, that's my story (so far!). Yes I lost my job, but now I step back and see that I was actually vibrating at too much of a good frequency to stay in that stressful place. I desired something that made me feel good, and made me a lot of money. I am now closer to that than I was several months ago. I feel free and happy! I know the next steps and I know where I am headed - even if I don't see the whole path yet. I know I am supported in this, because this feels good, and when something feels good it is easy and fun and delightful and joyous!

Thank you all for reading. I hope this inspired you, as it did me. Just remember...sometimes 'bad' isn't always 'bad'...if you step back, bad can be a blessing in disguise!

And I'll keep leeting you guys know how I go in my journey to the great, fun, rewarding, well-paying, super-successful career that is in my vortex...manifesting for myself.

Love and Hugs from iloverainbows 

[Shrikanya]

Dear iloverainbows,

Thanks for sharing your POV of this story. I have been away for a while trying to sort out everything and well the best is on the way. Its true. Sometimes, the so called 'bad experiences' are actually blessing in disguise, those lead us closer to our goals. And sometimes, Universe chooses better for us than we even thought of.

Keep posting.

Best Regards,
Shrikanya

[angel_star]

That was really very inspiring Iloverainbows. Thank you so much for sharing. Its true that sometimes what looks on the surface like 'bad' actually turns out to be a blessing in disguise. We just have to step back and relax. I'll remember your story always