If you have are about to get fired or you think you will get fired, what do you do. Find a job or have faith?

I have a job and I went to Louisiana. I called in Tuesday through Friday. I think my boss will kill me. What should I do? I do want to call in Monday and find a job but I'm afraid I might not find one in time. Should I have faith or find a job before she fires me?

Chances of your finding a job in 1 day are about the same as the chances of the boss being really thrlled that you laid out for a week for some personal stuff maybe even less. If you have an actual plausible sounding reason maaybeee maaaybeee if you have been a useful and productive worker and not messed up before and don't mess up again anytime soon maaaybeee you have a small chance of staying employed...which all of course you should have thought of before you decided to take off. It's not a case of faith. Faith comes in when you have done your best and you haven't. You have also left yourself in a place where if you do get fired your chances of drawing GA unemployment are a major zero. At least you did call in. Go look the boss in the eye and see if it is salvagable.

If by any chance you survive this and are still employed realize you are probably still on shakey ground and may be a prime candidate to go if they have to make any cutbacks because of the way the ecomnomy is even if you don't mess up again. Start doing a top quality resume and quietly circulating it. Plan on using lunch time and after work for interviews. That makes it tough but if you are still employed you are in no position to ask for any more time off.

Since you like the freedom to come and go when you please and that is pretty unlikely with any normal job but very possible with some sorts of businesses of your own look into that possibility. It may have a lot more challenge and reward and give you freedom. This may be something to start while still working or something to look at if you did get fired or to do along with any new job you get. There are not many where you can immediately earn as much or more than at a job but there are a few. All the really legit ones will probably require some investment and a lot of work but work to build up something for yourself not just make some company rich. The one I recommend most is Prepaid Legal because we checked it out very thoroughly before we started doing it and while I have been frustrated a few times in the yr we've been involved it has also done very well for the effort we invested and unlike many home businesses we do not loose ground if we take a break for a week or a month. Our site is www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/caringhand0 or you can go to http://www.pplmediaroom and check out "Justice For All" and other things there for more info. I have seen people in this who were earning more than their job pay within a couple of months, people who took a yr or two to do that,and some who justb do it bec they wanted a little extra money and of course there are always the ones who quit because they don't get totally rich the first month. What you get out is basickly what you put into it but it does pay quickly and reliably which is a really big thing bec so many things you have to wait forever to get thet first check and with this you can get 1 or 2 checks your first week depending what you do.

With what I see in the economy right now and having lived through a couple of serious recessions my advice is hang onto your current job if you still have one and strongly consider using $100-150 of your "stimulus" or "advanced refund" $$ or from whatever other money you have in building a second, independent source of income that is controlled by you. When you can make more at that than at your job let it be your prmary income. I believe Prepaid Legal is very stable, it has survived 34+ yrs and today more than ever ppl need affordable legal insurance even more than medical because bad economic times means more ppl trying to rip ppl off, more problems like debts and mortages that a lawyer can help but w/ such a plan they can't afford one, etc. But if it crashed tomorrow the skills in networking, in goal setting and achievement, in building a team, in sharing good ideas, that we and the folks working with us in Prepaid have built could be transferred to help us succeed in another network marketing business.

We do Prepaid to help support a ministry but I have worked other network marketing programs in the past as well as working in jobs where I felt backed in a corner or like they controlled my time and I had no freedom to go anytwhere or do anything. One thing I have learned about my self is I don't like working for someone else. I don't like them telling me when to blow my nose and how. I like to see the best way to do something and do it and frankly I like that the money from what I do comes to me. If you are like that too and it sounds like you may be then whether it is Prepaid or some other things that you have checked out and found is real and legit put at least some of your time and effort into building something that puts you in control and gives you the freedom and the money to do things that are important to you.

i would start setting up interviews
if u think u r about to get fires
so if u do u can fiind something to lean back on
instead of not luuking, gettin fired, then trying to find a job
better safe than sorry

Both. Have faith AND act on that faith by looking for a job.

If I was you, I would set up appointments for interviews just to be on the safe side, and you might find a job that you prefer. And if you are lucky enough to have a job waiting for you when you get back, and you don't want to quit, keep it, and use the other ones of back-ups just in case your ever in doubt again.

Good luck.
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