What to Do If You’re Fired From Your Remote Job

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

From the minute we begin looking for jobs until our last day on the job, our work consumes a significant percentage of our energy. We schedule our family lives, interests, and responsibilities around our work hours to guarantee we can attend to work-related concerns. For financial stability, we rely on our jobs and our employers. Even when working remotely, jobs can provide a sense of community by providing opportunities to engage with others via video or audio, chat, or the rare in-person meeting or conference.

It’s no surprise that the prospect of getting fired as a remote worker can be so distressing. How could you possibly be expected to manage something as serious as being fired or laid off when so much depends on your job?

There’s no getting around it: being dismissed from a remote job is difficult. It is, however, tolerable. There are things you can do (and things you shouldn’t do) to set yourself up for future success if you’re let go from a remote job, just as there are proper and incorrect ways to part ways with a remote worker. If you find yourself in that awful scenario, remember to take a deep breath, remind yourself that you are not your job, and follow these strategies to manage the issue with calm and purpose.