Life after redundancy

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I’ve been made redundant after 20 years in a well paid, sales based job. Aside from the rollercoaster of emotions and the knock on your confidence redundancy brings, I am hopeful the future will be brighter (fingers crossed).

Has anybody been made redundant and come out of the other side in a happier place? How do you deal with being so hard on yourself, and the ‘failure’? This had knocked my mental health, and feel like I’m sinking in to a world of misery. I accept the world is in a mess right now, and a new job will be hard to come by, but would love to hear any positive stories of life after redundancy 😊

Negative Nigellas needn’t respond 😘

I was made redundant from my first job after 3 years , it was a graduate role and I’d beaten hundreds of others In a really competitive process so the rejection was immense. I’d also only just bought a flat (90’s) so was worried about that too.

My way of dealing with it was to remind myself it was the role that had been made redundant and I was the casualty. Think about yourself in terms of transferable skills rather than a set role and be organised and disciplined in looking for work and keeping busy. I went on to get a much better role in a bigger and better company that I’m still at and that has given me loads of opportunities.

My father also got made redundant twice in his 40s/50s snd each time the contacts he’d made and who respected him introduced him to much better (more interesting and well paid) roles. He’s always said it shook up the inertia and was the best thing to have happened.

I was made redundant a few weeks ago after 17 years.
I've chosen to view it as a chance to open my eyes and see what else is around. Didn't even hear back from some job applications, then got 2 interview offers within a week and another post I'm interested in has just come up too.
During my time off, I've been doing courses on LinkedIn and aptitude type tests on the national careers site.
I'm still me, a more curious me, I am not redundant, my role was.
All the best, it can feel pretty rubbish.