Fired: Why Losing Your Job Is The Best Thing That Can Happen To You

by Stephanie Brown

Employed, unemployed, or FIRED, this is a book for you!

Prepare to re-frame your perceptions of what it means to be financially secure and career-stable.

In our lay-off prone modern society, this book is a must-read.

You are about to discover why losing your job is not the great tragedy it was in previous generations and why it is, in fact, one of the greatest opportunities you will have to change your life!

Its time to stop fearing ‘being fired’ and wake up to the fact it is the best thing that can happen to you.

Uncover the five key areas of your life to focus on as you start to build the life your really want, and learn how these 5 areas can provide the foundation for a life more fulfilled, more enriched and more exciting then you could ever have imagined.

Filled with practical steps to help you back into the workforce, or to simply rebuild your confidence after losing your job, FIRED is the book you need to get you back on track and start making huge gains in your life.

148 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2017

About the author

Stephanie Brown holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past twenty years she has pursued dual careers as writer and librarian. She is the author of Allegory of the Supermarket, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1998, and Domestic Interior, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and has been selected for six editions of the Best American Poetry annual anthology. In 2001 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 she was awarded the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She is a founding member of the Casa Romantica Reading Series which brought nationally known poets and fiction writers to San Clemente from 2004-2010. She has taught creative writing at UC Irvine and at the University of Redlands. She is an Administrative Manager for OC Public Libraries in Southern California, overseeing twelve of its thirty-three branches.