 What to do now that you've lost your job? Okay, maybe it's a scenario where somebody's sitting in a bar and they're having a drink and they're thinking, oh my gosh, I gotta go home and tell my husband or wife that I lost my job, what am I gonna do? Is that you? Did you lose your job this year? Cause a lot of people did. Now, if you did lose your job and you're concerned about what's gonna happen, you're gonna wanna watch this video to the very end. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. I've been selling online for 10 years. And one of the things I've noticed that's really gotten people into selling stuff online is losing their job. Now, 2020 started out as a great year. I mean, we were rocking and rolling, stock market was good, economy was growing. Then all of a sudden this little pandemic came along and you lost your job. Maybe you lost your job because of the pandemic or maybe you lost your job for some other reason, but either way, it's pretty traumatic. I think I've been fired from two jobs in my life if I remember correctly. I didn't feel like either one of them was my fault, but nevertheless, it's a bad feeling when you get fired from a job. You don't feel good about yourself. You feel like it's your fault. You feel like they're really smart. They don't need you and the world doesn't need you anymore and nothing could be further from the truth. I'm gonna walk you through exactly what you should do. Now, the question is what do you do? The first thing I'm gonna tell you is don't panic, okay? The fact is everything changes, everything changes. People say, oh my God, I lost my job. It doesn't matter that maybe that business could have gone out of business. Maybe you would have gotten laid off years later. You got to look at it as an opportunity because when you're motivated by a little bit of fear, or a little bit of disgust, your odds of being successful are much better. I remember years ago, I was in an industry where they would fire people right and left and I'd been at it for a number of years and I started thinking to myself as I was getting older, well, what happens one day if they decide to fire me? What would I do? Where would I go? And the more I thought about it, the more I thought, I don't wanna work for anybody anymore and I fired myself, okay? I actually quit and started selling things online. So I want you to look at this first off as an opportunity. Don't look at it as a negative because you got laid off. A lot of people got laid off. A lot of people got other jobs. Other people started businesses. They found new talents they didn't know they had. So don't think of it as a negative, it's not. And something else I want you to think about too is you're not alone. I mean, there's been a lot of people that have lost their jobs and a lot of these jobs aren't coming back. A lot of these jobs are going to online situations where they don't have to hire as many people or people work from home and you can do the same thing. You could make money from home if you choose to do so. But you could also find another job if that's what you choose to do. Now, the one thing I'll tell you to do is don't be idle. Being idle means I'm gonna go ahead and get my unemployment. I know that's gonna last for 26 weeks or whatever they extended to and I'm gonna try to look for a job in the meantime. Don't just try to look for a job. And the problem with this is if you got fired from an industry where maybe they're downsizing and they don't need those positions much anymore and you're going out trying to find the same position from another company, well, it's probably gonna be hard to do but even if you get that job it may actually be phased out anyhow. Take this opportunity to learn more. I think it's such a shame when I see adults who say, well, I've completed my schooling. I went through high school. I completed my schooling. I went through college. You've never completed your schooling. Never, never, okay? I learn stuff every single day because I'm out here. I'm online. I'm looking at what other people are doing. I'm looking at the successes of other people and I wanna learn new things. Now think of a job this way. You get hired because of your skills. Whatever your skill set is, okay? Maybe your skill set is your cash register person you know and you ring stuff up. Maybe your skill set is you're an accountant. Whatever your skill set is though, understand that's not all you are. That's not all you are. That's where you are. That's a big, big difference. All you are is yet to be found out, right? Because you have the rest of your life to figure out who you can be and what you can do. So the first thing I would say is improve your skills. Look in the market right now and find out a way to improve your skills. Maybe it's selling products online. I mean, I sell products online. I sell digital products and physical products and I know that online sales are gonna get better and better and better. I also know that YouTube channels are gonna get stronger and stronger. Yeah, there's a lot of YouTube channels out there. Yeah, there's a lot of competition but that doesn't mean I can't be one of the top people within that competition. It doesn't mean that you can't be either if you just pick up some new skills. Now, a couple things you wanna do is you wanna get organized. Number one, you wanna list all your expenses. What do you need to live every single month? Most people never do this. They have no idea what they need to earn to get by every single month. Now, I will tell you the number one reason people don't jot this down, they don't wanna know. They won't, they don't wanna know. They're gonna go, no, that'll scare the crap out of me, JR. If I list everything that I have to pay every single month, that's gonna be really scary. I can't look at that. Well, whether you look at it or not, it's there, okay? It's there and you gotta pay attention to it. I know a lot of you guys feel like, you know, when you get those credit card bills in, if you don't open that envelope, you don't know the money, right? You don't have to pay the money. That's not true and you really know that but opening that envelope kinda brings it home and you don't wanna see that. But I'll tell you, facing that is the best thing you can do because then you can decide how much money you need to earn and then you can go out there and figure out the way to earn that money. Now, the next thing I'm gonna tell you, number two, is look for budget breakers. All of us have money we spend every month but we don't really need to spend all of the money and my wife and I will occasionally take a look at our expenses. Do we need this? Do we need that? Do we need this cable? Are we watching these shows? You know, in a lot of times we look at it and we go, we're not even using this. We don't even watch this. We don't like this. So, what are your expenses? Are you going to the movie four times a month? You know, movies now, $15, $20? That's a lot of money right there. Could you possibly just subscribe to something on TV and watch from there and not spend the extra $30 or $40 on candy and popcorn and drinks? There are certain things in everybody's budget that you can trim. You know, if you look at some of the poorest countries in the world, most of those countries, those people get by on less than a dollar a day. Now, I know I live in the U.S. and there's no way you could possibly do that. However, the point is you probably don't need every single thing that you're spending money on right now and lowering those debts, lowering those expenses can take a lot of weight off your shoulder and give you more freedom to figure out what you're going to do next. Number three, examine your skills. What skillsets do you have? There's so many things you can do online nowadays. You know, maybe you're an accountant or maybe you did data entry or whatever. You can go to any sites like Fiverr or Upwork and you can actually put your skills there and you can get hired as a freelance operator. You don't necessarily need a full-time job and I've seen a lot of people who put their skills out there as a freelance operator and they end up never going back to a job. They're like, well, I kind of like this. I can work where I want, when I want. I don't have to drive to work. I don't have to buy clothes. I don't have to buy gas and oil and repair my car because I could just do this from my apartment or my house. This thing that we've had happen this year, this pandemic is really a godsend for a lot of people. A lot of people are figuring out they didn't like that job anyhow. They didn't want that job anyhow. It can be a very good thing getting fired because it makes you wake up. Now, you may say, well, Jay, I don't have enough skills to do all these things you're talking about, then get them, okay? Whatever skills you had on your previous job are skills that you got. Now, maybe they weren't high-level skills. Maybe they were high-level skills. The point is, you can always get more skills. You can go to YouTube right now and pretty much search anything that you wanna learn and it's there. From mathematics to accounting to selling online. I mean, my whole channel's got over 600 videos at the time of this recording on how to make money online. You can watch my videos through the weekend and figure out some ways to make money. Don't keep it private and here's what I mean by that. Let your friends and family and everybody know that you're no longer working for that company and you're looking for opportunities. There's no better way than networking. Somebody may look at you and say, oh, well, you did accounting. My friend needs some accounting work done could you possibly do some freelance work for them? And this company needs some work done. You may start a whole new business that you didn't even know existed but unfortunately, a lot of us are embarrassed and we don't wanna talk about it. We don't want anybody to know. So we don't get the word out. I'm telling you, get the word out. You'll be amazed how many opportunities there are out there if people know that you're looking for work. What I did is I predicted, I predicted my last job that one day I could get fired. Now was I gonna get fired? Probably not, but you don't know, you don't know. And I put myself through that scenario of what if I did? What if I did lose my job? I wouldn't be in a position. I was a single dad raising two kids. I wouldn't be in a position to take care of stuff the way I should, so I started developing new skills. Now I decided to start selling stuff online. I got pretty much laughed at because I couldn't even hardly type, which I still can't type very well. And I couldn't even send emails properly. I couldn't do anything really online. And then I told everybody I was gonna sell stuff online. They were like, well, how can that be? You don't know how to do anything online. But the one thing I knew that I could do is learn. That's the one thing I knew I could do is learn. So guys, I don't care what stage you're at. I don't care what age you're at. It doesn't matter. I was talking on the phone the other day and coaching somebody and they said, well, I'm 57. So I'm just not really good at online stuff. Okay, I didn't grow up with online stuff. So I'm not good at it. The point is, yeah, you did kind of grow up at it because you're comparing yourself to maybe you're 57. You compare yourself to a 20-year-old. You say, well, they grew up with all this stuff and I didn't. Well, yeah, you've been alive the past 20 years too. So yeah, maybe you grew up with it later in life with more skills under your belt prior to that. But it's been there. It's been there for the past 20 years, okay? So don't think you can't do these things. You can. You can learn any of these things, okay? Everything's always gonna change. And I think that's the big thing that people hate is change and change is inevitable, okay? That job you had, like I told you in the beginning of this video, maybe that company was gonna go out of business someday anyhow. What would you have done then? You've gotta constantly be thinking ahead. Now, I've got several businesses online and they generate money for me and they pay my bills. But man, I'm always looking for another way to make support, buddy, because I don't know maybe those things could go away. So I wanna have more and more ways to make money. I have this YouTube channel. I'm building this YouTube channel, okay? I have enough money coming from my survival food company to live off. I don't have to do the YouTube channel. I don't have to do the courses I've done. I don't have to do the coaching I've done. I don't have to do my Friday coaching. I don't have to do that. I have enough money from the survival food company. But what if? What if those sales go down? What if they get worse? What if something happens to the company and I can't sell it anymore? I wanna have other backup things and you should too. So if you've lost your job, I wanna tell you it's probably a great thing. You may not think so right now, but maybe a year or two on down the road, you're much better off than you were before and you're gonna go, man, such a good thing that I got fired, okay? It was such a good thing that I quit my job. I'm so happy I did. I've got to travel around the world. I've got to work from home. I've got to work from coffee shops. I've made more money. It's been great. So if you lost your job, put in the comments below. Tell me what happened. 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