Being Laid Off or Fired Doesn’t Define Who You Are

I would rank 2013 as probably one of the worst years of my life.

First, I got laid off as my job as a web designer from the Follett Higher Education Group. They are the largest operator of college and university bookstores in North America, with some 1400 locations.

Maybe it would not have hurt so bad if this had not been my third layoff, once after the dot.com crash of 2000, and the other when print news subscriptions started plummeting in the mid 2000s when I worked for the Tribune Corporation (owner of The Chicago…