[NPInfo] i just got fired!

[Paula Sumner]

Lynda,
  i just happened to get this in an email newsletter from Marilyn Gordon. It seems appropriate to the situation-may not feel like it right now, but thought I'd share it:
   
  Greetings! 
       "Fall seven times; stand up eight" is a Japanese proverb that says a lot. Though many people fear failure (as well as success), they can shift their perspective as they understand more about both. On one level of understanding they can see that both appear to be present in the lives of every person in a kind of woven tapestry. In this level, they may ask what it means to fail and succeed. Both appear to be a process of learning and becoming, and every part of the process is a step on the path of life. And very often you can't differentiate one from the other. 
     One of my favorite stories is about Abraham Lincoln who was born into poverty and was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown. Then his time came, and he finally won an election. You know what happened then! This office was for President of the United States, and he became one of the greatest presidents in US history. What was his soul learning from the seeming losses? Maybe he needed to develop his strength for the huge mission he came here to fulfill. Maybe he needed to be redirected toward something that was large enough in scope to handle his greatness. So if we can reach equanimity in both falling and rising, we can find peace in the process, and we can be happy about everything in our lives. 
     Now here's the real truth: In the eternal nature of the soul, success and failure have absolutely no reality at all. From an expanded view, success and failure, yes and no, right and wrong are illusory images on the backdrop of the timeless. As the poet Rumi wrote, 
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, 
the world is too full to talk about. 


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Lynda Woiblett <LWoiblett at msn.com> wrote:
  Well, My boss, the doc who owns the practice, stopped by my house after church this morning to tell me that she had thought it over very carefully and that she could not afford me any longer. (Guess that 60,000/yr was just so much more than I was worth). 
I understand that not being there for the past 5 weeks has made it bad for her, but I took no salary for the time that I have been off on sick leave. She gave me no notice or severance package. She said she would not cancel my health ins. until the end of the month. She said that she decided to tell me this way so my husband could be there for support. (I almost actually said out loud "How thoughtful of you". But I did not. I just got home from packing up my office. I also know that having to take time off for more dr appts than I ever thought I would have is hard on the practice. I had started back 1/2 days on Thursday, and there is no way I can do a full day yet. 
I am still too upset to start polishing the CV and looking for another job, but is there some recourse that I might have? I had no contract and that is one lesson hard learned today...although I did have one at my last job and there was so many ways to get out of it that it was pretty worthless.
And how much disclosure do I have to give my next employer re: my hearing loss? I am afraid that I will not be able to get another job when someone finds out I have a total hearing loss in one ear.
Sorry to cry on everyone's shoulders but I am in a spot that I have never experienced before and have no guidance.....and I am doubly scared because we just bought another house and have not yet sold ours so I am going nuts thinking about double mortgage payments!
Thanks in advance for any advice you can share..
Lynn W
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