Who are you when you no longer have a job title?
The title was useful shorthand. It was never the whole answer.
The Journal
Work & Identity
On losing a role, keeping your skills, and being a person beyond your job title.
Rebuilding confidence after a layoff, one ordinary task at a time
Confidence can return as evidence: small, real things you can point to and say you handled.
Grieving a job you didn’t even like
You can be relieved it is over and still miss the life that came with it.
An empty calendar is not an empty life
What happens when the meetings disappear, and your time is finally your own?
Your skills did not resign with you
A job can end. The things you learned how to do come with you.