The Best Job You've Ever Been Fired From

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Mark L. mentioned that he was fired from a job 20+ years ago for being too 
forward-thinking, and hasn't looked back.

After 5 months I was fired from a job that made me feel like I was burning 
out as a tech writer after 13 years in the field -- turns out it was that 
_job_, not the career. I got severance that paid for a 3-week job hunt (in 
2001), and got 3 offers in 1 week (lucky me). I got to pick the geographic 
location, whether I was a team member or sole writer, and salary. After the 
Big Shove, I went for a long jog, bought myself flowers and a home computer 
and an Internet plan, and updated my resume.

My current job is often frustrating, limiting and inhibiting, but it's 
sometimes boundless in potential and variety -- one week I'm begging for 
work, the next I'm begging for relief (I'm the sole writer). I do SDLC, QA, 
SLAs, then nothing. Then it starts again.

Have you been fired? Was it the best or worst thing that ever happened?

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Is fearr socrú dá dhonacht ná dlí dá fheabhas.
It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.
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