YOU'RE FIRED!!!
It happens to Will and Jenine in Ranch Park. And it happened once to me, too. If it ever happens to you–hopefully it won’t–but if it does, there’s a good chance that it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Now, don’t get me wrong. There are many perfectly good reasons for people to get fired. Inability to do the job, theft, vandalism, drugs, rudeness to customers–to name a few. But there are also many instances of wrongful dismissal from a real job or a volunteer position.
In my case it happened when a TV crew from Our Ohio, a documentary series, came out to a small theme park where I was volunteering. It had been MY idea to get them to come. But when they finally did, nobody bothered to tell me. So I missed the whole thing. What’s more, a staff member I considered my arch rival, since both of us were doing photography for the place,
got all the credit and got to do all the cool stuff with the TV folks. Stuff that I had looked forward to doing. But HE got to do it instead of me. I was not a happy camper. I complained a bit too loudly to the wrong people–and got the boot. Dirty politics were at work–and I’ve heard others say much the same about that place. I did not let it keep me down, however. Instead, I let it be the kick in the pants that I needed to awaken the sleeping #author inside me. I began to
write Ranch Park–and the Will Nickerson Mysteries blossomed from there. The series would never have been, had it not been for a wrongful firing from a volunteer position that I had planned to quit within a few months anyway. A door was slammed in my face. But it jarred open a new door to something potentially MUCH bigger and better. My own novels, published
and available to readers worldwide! So if a wrongful dismissal ever happens to you, do not be ashamed. I’m certainly not ashamed of anything. It just means you’re a person and not a ‘bot. You don’t play by the rules. You’re a game changer. And that’s a darn good thing to be. The world was built by game changers. Not by those who always played by the rules. In the future
when I become an employer, I’ll welcome people who have been fired from other jobs to come work for me. I’m going to want some game changers on my team.
Ranch Park is in #paperback and #Kindle editions at: amzn.to/1zKuIvH
It’s on #Nook and #Kobo, too!
Nook: bit.ly/1xqC2j9
Kobo: bit.ly/1A7bw0w
In my case it happened when a TV crew from Our Ohio, a documentary series, came out to a small theme park where I was volunteering. It had been MY idea to get them to come. But when they finally did, nobody bothered to tell me. So I missed the whole thing. What’s more, a staff member I considered my arch rival, since both of us were doing photography for the place,
got all the credit and got to do all the cool stuff with the TV folks. Stuff that I had looked forward to doing. But HE got to do it instead of me. I was not a happy camper. I complained a bit too loudly to the wrong people–and got the boot. Dirty politics were at work–and I’ve heard others say much the same about that place. I did not let it keep me down, however. Instead, I let it be the kick in the pants that I needed to awaken the sleeping #author inside me. I began to
write Ranch Park–and the Will Nickerson Mysteries blossomed from there. The series would never have been, had it not been for a wrongful firing from a volunteer position that I had planned to quit within a few months anyway. A door was slammed in my face. But it jarred open a new door to something potentially MUCH bigger and better. My own novels, published
and available to readers worldwide! So if a wrongful dismissal ever happens to you, do not be ashamed. I’m certainly not ashamed of anything. It just means you’re a person and not a ‘bot. You don’t play by the rules. You’re a game changer. And that’s a darn good thing to be. The world was built by game changers. Not by those who always played by the rules. In the future
when I become an employer, I’ll welcome people who have been fired from other jobs to come work for me. I’m going to want some game changers on my team.
Ranch Park is in #paperback and #Kindle editions at: amzn.to/1zKuIvH
It’s on #Nook and #Kobo, too!
Nook: bit.ly/1xqC2j9
Kobo: bit.ly/1A7bw0w
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