Know Your Worth. Then, Add Tax.
‘Lois Lane’ of the Newsroom
I was happily in love with the career I married…
…then left blindsided and heartbroken.
I cried into my closest friends’ arms, we ate delicious Thai food, bestie Sherry said to me chowing down on a very spicy pad Thai meant I was ‘mentally unstable’ but in a good way. My network and closest friends gave me the toughest love any friend can receive when losing a job, but never shifted any blame on me, even when I thought the circumstances were my fault.
As with any breakup, I reflected. It would be easy for anyone to grieve by having animosity, which is completely valid. While I am still grieving, I’m also at peace. By peace, I mean that the decision to part ways with my previous employer is something I cannot and will never control.
Despite this unprecedented moment, there’s something beautiful in adversities that can bring newer opportunities. I don’t know what these beautiful opportunities are, but the depressing winter emanation slowly leaving signals a new beginning for me.
Throughout my 20s, I’ve been through Hell and back with many traumas and situations I thought were meant for me but turned out to be a misery. These were lessons learned, not lessons to return to.
What I really admire about my generation in the workforce is that we protect ourselves by creating boundaries and simply moving on to prevent any more damage because it’s not worth it to persistently find answers for ‘closure.’
Because we know our worth. Then, we add the tax to those who doubt our capabilities.
I think that’s what many people don’t understand, especially with broken relationships with your significant other, friends or family members, closure is not finding the answers within that other individual. Closure comes from protecting yourself and letting time heal you. If you cannot do that, lingering in the past and waiting for something to work will never benefit you.
Journalism will always have a piece of my heart and those feelings will remain until the day I die. I will never take the career I first started right after college for granted. It taught me to be a better person every day.
More content to come soon. Yes, TPE is running again.
Thank you.
— Paula J.P.