Redundancy Can Have A Silver Lining

18/03/2009 by info.

Life and Business Coaches are taught that if someone makes a negative comment that that comment should be reframed. Reframing is simply changing the meaning of an event or experience. The same way that placing a picture in a different picture frame somehow changes the look of it.

So today it was announced that unemployment has passed two million barrier in the UK. Now I am not suggesting that this is not a stressful situation. However perhaps being made redundant is a blessing in disguise for some of those people, allowing them to move on from a job that they hated and towards something much more rewarding such as running their own a business.

Speak to thousands of self-employed people and business owners and they will tell you that being their own boss was the best thing they ever did. Just because someone may have been made redundant at the age of 55 it doesn’t mean to say that their working life is over.

In fact the vast majority of business buyers are between the ages of 45 – 55 exactly the age when employers start to discount them in the recruitment process. This age group however has significant life experiences and plenty of transferable skills, together with the training that is offered by a seller of a business; this often equals a recipe for success.

So for anyone who has recently been made redundant the best thing you can do, if you have funds, is to think about of buying or establishing your own business. At least you can then be guaranteed that you will never be made redundant again.

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