Chloe Shih

That day I went to go see some friends and they were congratulating me.

They were supporting me.

They were like, this is unlocking you to do so many things.

And when you have that support network telling you, giving you the thoughts and the quotes in your head to tell that you will be okay that they believe in you, then that's what you can tell yourself when you're alone or that when I'm alone.

i'd be like i got all these like how can i fail when all these people really believe in me like friends in real life support me so uh i just gotta go and keep it going keep my head up yeah um i think the difference was i probably lost my identity a lot in the past in career and so i i promised myself i wouldn't that wouldn't happen again

So I would say I never really cried.

I never cried about the layoff.

It didn't hit me as hard because that happened before.

But I think for a lot of people who came to me and shared DMs, they spent weeks, if not months, lying to their roommates that they're still going to work because they couldn't fathom the idea that they got laid off because that means they suck.

but it's not their fault.

In fact, it's the company's fault for mismanaging, mishiring, I don't know, miscalculating the projections.

But it is just part of this new era of work and that it's okay.

You got to just let yourself process, get your support and move on to the next.

Yeah, I think in the past when things didn't work out with my job, I think I just like blamed myself like, oh, I'm not good enough yet.

I that's my self-worth because that's all I have.

all I do is my job, my work, my career, like all I care about.

And then when I, things don't work out, I don't get the promotion.

I lose.

Um, I don't get an interview.

I don't get the offer.