losing your job can be devastating and can it can trip you up and spiral you
into depression extremely fast so today I'm gonna be talking about how I lost my
job and my goal is to provide you with some hope that this thing is gonna get
better so stay tuned what's up everybody this
is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution and if you haven't figured it out yet the job I lost was actually a
long time ago I'm still working at a drug and alcohol treatment center sorry
for the clickbait action but this is a very very important message and story
that I have to share with all of you who are unemployed and dealing with
depression this is actually a video I've been meaning to make for a long time now
but it was actually inspired by a good friend of mine who recently lost her job
so I figured mom would be the right time to talk about it because I know a lot of
you out there are struggling because you're out of work so I'm about to share
a little story with you so kick back relax get yourself a cup of joe or some
tea or whatever it is that you drink but anyways
relax and I'm going to share this little story with you so back in 2012 I got
clean and sober and I was out of work I was completely unemployed for a very
long time it was over 15 months at least because that's when I moved back to Las
Vegas this was extremely difficult for me because I'm a workaholic when I'm not
working like I get very anxious and like I need to do something I need to be
productive but I'm very grateful that I didn't have to work for that first year
because I was able to focus on myself and that's where a lot of the
improvement of my mental health actually happened because it was an entire year
where I could focus on me and thanks to my wonderful mother she was helping to
support me well I really got my act together and got on my feet so after 15
months of being in California away from my son
I decided to move back to Las Vegas be a father to my son get on my feet start
working again you know be a normal adult right and it was rough I came back to
Las Vegas with 200 dollars in my pocket no idea what I was gonna do I could
barely afford a bus pass to get places and nothing was working out I was
applying for stuff I I was willing to take any job - and nothing was panning
out then one day I was with my friend at lunch we bumped into another friend and
he starts talking to me he's like hey what's up man way to get back into town
I'm like hey you know and I explained to him I was looking for work he's like hey
remember that dude from high school I'm like yeah he's like dude he owns a
computer repair shop and my for those of you who don't know I'm a big computer
nerd I've been building computers since I was like this big in case you can't
see this way down there so I was like dude like give me his info let's talk
and I ended up talking to my old buddy from high school and within like a week
I had a job at his computer repair shop I'm like oh my god you know this is
working out like everything's falling into place and this is amazing and like
by the way that's not where this story ends this isn't the hope I meant to give
you because and within about two months within about two months I lost that job
I got fired I got fired by my friend from high school who got me the freakin
job and it was over some bull stuff gotta keep a family friendly but anyways
let me tell you a little bit about this job - first off I hated it I absolutely
hated it okay one reason I hated it I had to stand up on my feet all day if
you haven't noticed I'm kind of a heavyset dude and being on my feet all
day is not good but the biggest problem I had with the job was the main computer
technician like every day at lunch I was like calling my friends and I'm like
please talk me out of beating the living hell out of this guy like I just loathe
this dude and I had to work with him every single day and I just absolutely
despised him but I ended up losing that job and it sucked it absolutely sucked
like there's nothing worse than everything starting to work out and then
it just comes crashing down and during that time that two months I was working
at the place I had just signed a lease on an apartment got the power turned on
all the utilities and everything like that and I lose this job and I'm like
dude how am I going to afford this place and I started looking for a job and I
couldn't find one and it just got really depressing because when you have
depression and anxiety like I do like there's the depression of being
unemployed and then the anxiety of like how am I gonna pay my bills and things
like that and my depression was getting worse like even though I was over a year
sober and back in Las Vegas me and my son's mom's relationship was still not
good and she still didn't fully trust me to be around our son so not only was I
depressed about that but even if I could see my son I couldn't do anything with
him like I could barely feed myself you know and like one of the one of the
worst parts about losing your job is like we we begin to feel useless like
there's so much weight that we put on being employed right and we feel useless
especially if you're like any type of parent or breadwinner you know but it's
terrible for all of us and I got to a point where I was so depressed I was so
depressed this is the first and only time in my recovery where I was this
close to a relapse this close and if any of you have been following my channel
and first on my story like I got sober with a 10% chance of living so I think
it's important to recognize that if I'm thinking about relapsing I'm thinking
about suicide like it's not just a relapse for me if I drink or use again I
will die and I was at the point where that was about to happen I was gonna
take the last you know 20 bucks in my pocket walk across the street and go get
a drink and it's crazy too it's crazy because I know a lot of you struggle
with this too but I was extremely depressed about a job that I lost that I
hated like when I put it into words like that like can you see how that's a
little bit strange we get so upset about this job that we didn't even want right
and in case you didn't realize it like I didn't relapse I ended up talking to
some people they talked me off the ledge and what I ended up doing and this is my
pro tip for everybody out there like you need to make your job finding a job okay
I started hustling I was sending out about 50 resumes a day through crisis
just going nuts on that thing all right and I ended up getting so many job
interviews that I didn't even have enough plus money to
get to all the job interviews all right like I was just hustling like
crazy one of the things that I always tell my clients when they're looking for
work I'm like don't stop looking for a job until you are signing paperwork for
the job because I see far too many people get like an interview or a second
interview and they put every single egg in that basket and they sit around and
watch Netflix all day like yeah I pretty much got this job and then they don't
get it and they get even more depressed and when you do that you're setting
yourself up for failure but anyways anyways after a little while of looking
for jobs and getting all these different job offers I ended up getting a job
offer for this company called text broker okay
and I hated what I was doing in the past and then this new job that I got like
man like it was perfect first off I was making more money than I was at the
previous job second off I got to sit down all day on a computer next there
was no dress code at all I can come in there wearing pretty much anything and I
get to sit at a computer listen to music all day like it was a dream job like it
didn't pay me a ton of money but like it was so much better than the job I lost
and I remember just sitting there thinking like oh my god like I almost
ruined everything I had just because I was so impatient you know because I
didn't see that I could potentially get this other job that I would absolutely
love you know and something I'll throw out there for all of you if you are
unemployed and depressed and watching this video if you are even a half-decent
writer like writing like if you have a high school level of writing check out
text broker calm okay this isn't a sponsored deal or anything like that I
don't even know if I can get in trouble for advertising them but whatever
anyways they're a website where they link up writers and companies together
and you can write you can freelance you could write from home and make money
there are ton of different ways to make money from home like in 2018 like you
should never be worried about not working there are so many ways to make
money from home if any of you watching this need
ideas on how to make money working from home like please leave comments down
below and I'm not talking about these like fly-by-night kind of crazy things
I know dozens and dozens and dozens of people making a living working from home
anyways I worked for this place called Tex broker and I was an Account Manager
alright so I manage different accounts I managed these big projects that we would
do like website designs and all sorts of stuff right and I ended up managing a
project for a place called American addiction centers and those of you who
don't know me you don't know why that's a big deal so I start working on a
project for this place called American addiction centers and I work my butt off
and the person who was my contact at American addiction centers loved me she
loved me she loved my communication she loved how hard I work she loved my
customer service she loved how I made sure the project went well she loved all
that stuff right and one week she was gone
and she says hey I'm gonna be able to tell him to be in Las Vegas I'm like I'm
in Las Vegas so when she got back in town I was like hey what were you doing
in Las Vegas and she's like oh we have a drug-and-alcohol treatment center out
there and I'm like really so what I did and I hope nobody from text brokers
watching this I started emailing her on the side I'm like yo I'm a drug addict
an alcoholic in recovery and like I would love to work in that industry and
to shorten that story up a few months later a job position opened up and I
ended up getting a job for American addiction centers and that's the job I
currently have I've been here for about two and a half years and it's the best
job I've ever had I've never had a job where everyday when I wake up I'm
excited to go to work I'm excited to go in and help people help people who are
struggling with mental illness struggling with drug addiction with
alcoholism I get to go in there every single day and do something that I
absolutely love hell I love it so much that I come home and make youtube videos
about stuff I do at work all day that's how much I love it
but the moral of this story is okay I don't I don't care if you're religious
or spiritual or you believe in karma but think about that for a second I lost
that job that's I'll be down into depression but what if
what if I never lost that job what if I was still working there today I would
have never had the opportunity to work at the amazing job that I love so much
today so I know I understand if you're if you're in a dark place right now if
you lost your job if you're unemployed and everything seems hopeless I get it
I've been there but I just beg of you like clinging on to hope clinging on to
hope like just do your best to be optimistic okay maybe maybe there's some
bigger reason that you don't even know of yet of why you are no longer working
at the place there maybe there's a reason why you didn't get a job at other
places like there's so much that we don't know and don't understand but I've
learned to just develop this blind faith that things are gonna work out and it
has not failed me sense as long as I do the footwork and just continue to do my
best things work out right like this is something that just keeps me in a good
mood every single day no matter what happens to me I'm like you know what
maybe that happened for a reason if I can just keep that in my head like maybe
that happened for a reason you know so I hope I hope if it nothing else I
hope this story inspired you a little bit I hope I motivated you a little bit
I hope it got you a little bit out of that funk just keep reminding yourself
maybe this is for a reason and maybe it's setting you up for something
amazing it happened to me and I'm nobody special
it can happen to you too alright there anyways if you know somebody who is
unemployed right now and they're going through a struggle do me a favor share
this video with them okay you got to promise me you got to promise me right
now share this video with somebody you know who was unemployed alright but
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