How to Get Over Losing Your Job

Use the same coping strategies you’d use for a breakup

Allie Volpe
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 26, 2019

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SSure, maybe you could have been more attentive. Communication could have been better. You’re not making the effort you once did. But still, it’s hard to accept that you’re saying goodbye.

You’ve been fired, or laid off, or made a gut-twisting decision to leave a job you loved. And now you’re…

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Allie Volpe
Forge
Writer for

Writes about lifestyle, trends, and pop psychology for The Atlantic, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Washington Post, and more.