15/07/2025
Your whole identity is tied to your job title.
“Assistant Marketing Manager.”
“Accounts Clerk.”
“Customer Support Executive.”
That’s great.
Until the company restructures.
Until new management decides to “streamline.”
Until the day you wake up and HR invites you to a “quick check-in” that ends your employment.
Now what?
You spent five years replying “Kindly find attached”
But never attached anything to your future.
You’ve sat in countless strategy meetings.
But never strategized on your brand.
You’re fluent in corporate language
But mute when it comes to selling your value.
It’s not that the job was bad.
It’s that you treated it like it was permanent.
And forgot to build an exit strategy.
Let’s get serious:
If you lost that job today,
what would you fall back on?
Do you have a network outside your office walls?
Do you have a skill you’ve been sharpening?
A side hustle that earns?
A portfolio that speaks when you’re silent?
Or would you just update your CV and start scrolling job boards in a panic?
It’s not paranoia.
It’s preparation.
Because job security isn’t what it used to be.
And the best backup plan?
Is one you build before the storm hits.
