This Is The Book You Need To Read After Losing Your Job

"It goes without saying: Getting fired sucks. The moments before are excruciating, especially if you get invited to a last-minute meeting with HR and know exactly what's coming. The aftermath is even worse: losing a steady paycheck and health insurance, diving into a daunting job market, and taking a massive hit to your self-esteem. It's a true walk-in-the-rain-and-feel-sorry-for-yourself moment. Being laid off is hardly any easier."

"Brown's also been in the biz for 25 years, and her career has followed a similar trajectory with a start at Australian Family, which closed soon after she began. "I'm the kiss of death," she jokes. She then held positions at Mode, Harper's Bazaar, Talk magazine, , and Harper's Bazaar again, before landing at InStyle where she was editor-in-chief for five years before its print edition shuttered. She now owns her own company, LB Media."

Getting fired inflicts immediate emotional and practical damage: fear before the meeting, loss of income and health insurance, a harsher job market, and a hit to self-esteem. Being laid off produces similar effects. Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill present firing as a trigger for reinvention and potential advancement. The book All The Cool Girls Get Fired offers guidance on starting over and embracing new opportunities. O'Neill has worked at Time Out New York, New York magazine, WSJ. magazine, and Harper's Bazaar and is now head of media atSotheby's. Brown held roles at Mode, Harper's Bazaar, Talk magazine, and was InStyle editor-in-chief; she now runs LB Media.

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