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When the realities of the new workplace are laid out for us, most of us, at a rational level, can relate to them. It’s common sense. The big challenge is to psychologically accept that reality and adjust our lives and attitudes towards earning a living. That challenge will continue for the foreseeable future, because many people around us will continue to have traditional jobs. One of the biggest problems facing people who have lost their jobs is looking around and seeing many of the people they know still working in traditional jobs. This leaves them feeling victimized and lost.

Even though the majority of people are well aware that significant changes are going on in the workplace, they can’t really relate to the challenges that people who have lost their jobs are facing. They only get it when it happens to them or someone in their family.

There’s denial going on here, of course. Sure, we know about the turmoil in the workplace, but if we still have a job, we don’t want to think too much about the challenges we would face if we lost that job. It’s an attitude that many of us have towards major diseases as well, and it explains why so many people are shattered when they lose their jobs. It’s the “it’ll never happen to me” syndrome. Our first reaction is to replace the job we lost with another job, and if the prospects for that are bleak, we panic and look at our situation from the worst possible point of view.

At some point, however, we have to face the realities of the new workplace, and one of the fundamental changes that we have to make is to recognize the fact that there is work out there, just not necessarily jobs. We have to learn to cope with the new realities and adjust our approach to looking for work accordingly. That doesn’t mean giving up looking for a job, if that’s what is important to you. It means that you have to accept the fact that the route to finding that job will be different from what it has been in the past.