💭 If you were let go from your job tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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Celebrate

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Take a vacation for 2 weeks and then start the job search

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Take 2 weeks off, then re-evaluate my career in finance/accounting and decide on an transitional career path to pursue.

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Go on a much much much needed disconnect

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Go and travel. For a month or two at least

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I would take a couple months off to decompress.

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message all the people in my network to see who could recommend me

Chill and garden which is what I'm doing

Take a vacation.

Take a week off and cry. Then probably go into business for myself. With the state of the current job market i think I’d have a better chance being successful faster doing that than in actually finding a new job with similar pay.

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