Financial Resilience
The first two days established your baseline: what you actually spend and where you can reduce costs. Today you determine how long your emergency fund protects you. An emergency fund exists for exactly this situation. Economic uncertainty, potential job loss, or unexpected expenses are what this money is for. The
Job Security Systems
The first two days focused on documenting what you do. Today you document who needs what you do. Your value to the organization isn't just about the tasks you complete. It's about the relationships you maintain, the people who rely on your work, and the gaps
Career Transition
Yesterday you contacted five people from your existing network. Today you expand that network by joining groups where hiring managers and decision-makers spend time. Job boards show you positions that hundreds of other people are applying to. Professional groups put you in the same spaces as people who make hiring
Workplace Navigation
Org charts show formal authority. They don't show actual influence. The person with the most power in your department might not be the one with the manager title. Real influence comes from relationships, expertise, or control over resources that other people need. Understanding who has informal power helps
Financial Resilience
Yesterday you calculated your actual monthly expenses. Today you identify which ones to reduce. Not all expenses are equal candidates for reduction. Fixed costs like rent and insurance are difficult to change quickly. Variable necessities like groceries and utilities can be trimmed but not eliminated. Discretionary expenses are where you
Career Transition
Yesterday you filed for unemployment benefits. Today you determine your financial runway. Your runway is how many months you can survive on current savings before you run out of money. This number shapes every other decision you make during unemployment. It tells you how aggressive your job search needs to
Career Transition
Yesterday you identified your most monetizable skills. Today you create access to people who will pay for those skills. Freelance platforms connect people who need specific tasks completed with people who can do that work. You won't build a full-time income on these platforms immediately, but you can
Career Transition
Your job search resume should be tailored for each position. But you can't tailor effectively if you're starting from memory every time. A master resume is your complete professional record. It includes every achievement, project, responsibility, and metric from your recent work history. You'll
Resilience Experiments
Yesterday you identified your three most transferable skills. Today you address the gap between where you are and where you need to be. Your most transferable skills give you flexibility if circumstances change. But transferability alone doesn't guarantee employment. You also need competence at a level that makes
Job Security Systems
Most of your work exists only in your memory and in the results you produced. If someone asked your manager to list your contributions from six months ago, they'd remember the big projects but miss the smaller work that kept things running. This creates a problem during layoffs.
Career Transition
When you're unemployed, every application feels urgent. You apply to multiple positions daily, respond to whatever looks promising, and try to remember which companies you've contacted. Within two weeks, the details blur together. You can't remember if you followed up with the marketing manager
Resilience Experiments
Your job security depends partly on factors outside your control. The one factor you can control is how prepared you are if circumstances change. Most people wait until they're job searching to think about which skills matter beyond their current role. By then, they're under pressure