Where to start looking
I have been made redundant
It was a business decision and it does not feel like one.
You are being efficient about the practical steps and not thinking about the rest.
You find yourself explaining it to people who did not ask.
Losing the role is separate from losing the job
The income is one loss. The daily identity, the colleagues, the place in something, the answer to what do you do: those go at the same moment and are rarely counted. People are then surprised by how much it hurts given that the money was sorted.
The speed of the next move is not a measure of anything
There is pressure to be back in something quickly, partly to prove the redundancy was about the company rather than about you. Decisions made under that pressure tend to be the ones people regret.
It is a reasonable moment to ask a bigger question
Not because everything happens for a reason. Because the structure that made the question impossible to ask has been removed.
What this usually connects to
- What you would want the next thing to have, beyond replacing the salary.
- What this has done to how you see your own competence.
A question worth sitting with
- If you had six months and a floor under you, what would you want to find out?
The session deals with what redundancy actually did, alongside what happens next.
Made redundantIt is a conversation, not a questionnaire. You can stop at any point, and finishing it does not mean anything has to change.
If the question turns out to be a different one
This is reflection, not legal advice. Where rights, contracts or obligations are involved, take proper legal advice.
This is reflection about what money is for. It is not financial, tax or investment advice, and it should not be used in place of a qualified adviser.