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Two Layoffs in 12 Months Will Change How You See Yourself

Getting laid off once will shake you.


Getting laid off twice in 12 months will change you.


The first one feels like a hit. You start asking questions about timing, about the company, about what you could have done differently.


The second one feels different.


It feels personal.


Even if it is not.


You start to question your value. You start to replay conversations. You start to wonder if there is something you are not seeing about yourself that everyone else can.


That is where confidence takes the real hit.


Not in the moment you lose the job, but in the meaning you attach to it after.


Two layoffs in a year can make you feel like you are starting over from nothing.


You are not.


But it feels that way because your identity was tied to something that is now gone twice.


Rebuilding confidence after that is not about pretending it did not affect you.


It is about separating what happened from who you are.


Those are not the same thing.


They just feel like it when the hits come close together.

If you are navigating career setbacks and struggling to rebuild confidence, my work is built around exactly that process. Learn more at kinneyconfidence.com.


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