Comments on: Steve Jobs On Being Laid Off

By: spark

spark — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:57:55 +0000

i dont understand how one can be fired from their own company…. wouldnt he have rights? like someone cant kick you out of your own house… you own the house.. your names on it…

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Costco Job Applications — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:02:43 +0000

With lay offs left and right, all of us need jobs. This is a very helpful post. Great article!

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Inspirational Posts - #1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:58:40 +0000

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By: Raghu

Raghu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:20:55 +0000

Excellent post. I have just decided to jump from a very secure corporate executive life of over 20+ years into the unknown world of being an entrepreneur and the last 4 weeks have been the most exhilarating time that I have had for a long time. I am learning something new quite like my start as a software engineer in my early days. I know I will be successful and this article is a true inspiration. Thank you, Sramana.

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Business News » Blog Archive » We Have To Turn This Crisis Around — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:58:41 +0000

[...] Listen to what Steve Jobs has to say about being laid off from Apple: “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” (You can read more from Jobs here.) [...]

By: Pawan Sahay

Pawan Sahay — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:46:51 +0000

Gets even worse (I guess) when you:
1) have a fat wallet
2)are a public figure.

expectations arise from not only oneself but from people around you .

Cheers..

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:57:49 +0000

Nice post… Keep writing.

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By: Nishant Verma

Nishant Verma — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:25:18 +0000

Really good piece ! I am inspired… That’s why people always says “Love what you do or do what you love”.

Nishant

By: Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:49:17 +0000

Simone, True, but it is very difficult for people who are successful in one thing to quit their safe, proven platform and start over. That’s the phenomenon that Jobs describes here.

Now, the population of technology professionals who are facing difficult times today may not have the “fat wallet” that Jobs did, but the psychology is the same. They had a monthly paycheck coming into their bank account, and the security of that is what they could not abandon.

But if you get fired, the security is gone. You can start with a blank slate. No?

By: Simone

Simone — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:23:07 +0000

Inspiring words.

But Mr. Jobs forgot to tell us that when he had been laid off… he was already a multi-million dollars man.

Life’s challenges take a different perspective when you have a fat wallet.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:50 +0000

Good luck Federico, you can do it. If it is a mistake you will know soon enough, I bet. It is possible for us to make an uncomfortable change and survive… even thrive. I am a regular working level guy (unlike Steve Jobs), and although I am not comfortable yet, I would not trade what I have learned from jumping ship into an entrepreneurial experience for any degree of comfort or complacency. Frankly, we in the US are all living in a bubble, or are too complacent anyway… so go ahead and drink the kool-aid, however unsettling it is at first!