Owen Raskovich

These countries struggled severely during that time.

And arguably, they were in a recession for that whole period.

But again, if I guess, I don't think we're headed into one of those severe recessions because there is a lot going for the Australian economy.

I think bringing this back to you and I and the situations that we feel day to day, I think there are kind of three camps that people will fall into.

The first one is that you keep your job.

In a recession, if you keep your job and you keep your pay and everything's kind of going forward as normal, a recession can actually be a good thing for you because you can use the money that you're already collecting from your salary and you can keep investing.

You can keep buying shares or...

Who knows?

You might even have enough money to buy a property.

You might have enough money to buy things that are cheaper because people are just selling them very, very cheaply.

So, the question here to ask is how secure is your job, right?

So, how secure do you feel about your job, but also is the company secure in its place as, I guess, an organization?

So, you know, sometimes you can be great at your job, but the company itself is struggling.

So...

What Kate and I have always said is make yourself valuable to the team.

You know, you can go back and listen to our episode on salaries and getting a pay rise, upskilling.

You know, one of the things that's probably just a no-brainer right now is you don't want to be the negative Nellie at work.

Don't be the person that's like really complaining about things, really just trying to find a way to get out of work because right now is when the team needs to work together.

Regardless of whether you hate it, love it, or you're indifferent to your workplace, you kind of need to get on the front foot and want to do those extra hours and want to do that.

Because I can tell you as a business owner, you need people in your team that do that.