Title: How to Cope With Losing Your Job and How to Move On
Headings: Coping With Job Loss
Career Planning Job Loss
Coping With Job Loss
Dealing With Job Loss
Taking Care of the Practical Stuff
Moving On

Content: How to Cope With Losing Your Job and How to Move On
Career Planning Job Loss
Coping With Job Loss
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Dawn Rosenberg McKay is a certified Career Development Facilitator. She is a former writer for The Balance Careers. Read The Balance's editorial policies
Dawn Rosenberg McKay
Updated October 29, 2018
Call it what you want—being laid off or downsized, getting dismissed or fired, receiving your pink slip or your walking papers—losing your job hurts. Job loss often ranks among the highest in stress on a list of life-altering events such as a death in the family, divorce, and serious illness. It can have a profound effect on your emotional well-being. There is a typical cycle that most people experience when they go through the loss of a job. It includes denial, anger, frustration, and eventually adaptation. Dealing With Job Loss
As you can see, being separated from one's job is tough and many people experience grief much in the same way they do when someone close to them dies. It is not terribly surprising since a significant part of your life goes away when you lose your job. Many of us closely identify ourselves by what we do for a living.