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If you’re over 40 or have been strongly influenced by your parents’ experience in the workplace, you may need to make some significant and fundamental changes in your thinking about your career and what to expect in your working life. In yesterday’s workplace, the relationship between the worker and the employer was much more paternalistic than it is today.

The reason why so many people are devastated by the loss of a full-time job often has more to do with other aspects than the financial one. What the individual also loses is a sense of belonging to a community, some dignity and self respect, pride in what he or she does, and he or she often feels betrayed if he or she gave the company all that he or she had to offer. These non-tangible things that come with a job in a large company may not necessarily come with a job in a small company.

How people react to the changes that arise from going from a large to a small company will vary according to how secure they are with themselves, how well they adapt to change, how informed they are about the workplace, and their ability to rise above the day-to-day challenges and view the transition that the workplace is going through from a broader, more philosophical point of view.