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Coping with redundancy: Who am I without my job? | Jarrod Cocksedge
Coping with redundancy can mean losing much more than an income. The calls stop, your diary empties and a question as ordinary as “What do you do?” suddenly becomes difficult to answer. If you’ve spent years being capable, busy and needed, who are you when the job title disappears?
Jarrod Cocksedge, creator of The Badlands podcast, joins me to talk about the emotional impact of losing work: grief, shame, loneliness and the unsettling feeling of becoming invisible. Although Jarrod wasn’t made redundant himself, returning to the UK after a senior advertising career overseas left him without the…
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