We all see success differently our aspirations
are influenced by how we were brought up, the environment we live in, how we
see ourselves and the people we live and work alongside with. You never stop
having ambitions and goals; they just change as you grow older or if you are in
a situation that you can never get yourself out of and retrenchment is one of
them.
Ways
to become more confident after the ordeal
Joseph Nkosi is a fifty-two
year old man that worked for twenty seven years at Nampak Glass Company and he
was the longest worker in the company and worked for 27 years. He was
retrenched from the company in the year 2009; Nkosi says that being retrenched
from the company left him angry, feeling bad, worried and having a lot of mixed
feelings. When the management told him that he was one of the people that were
going to be retrenched he ended up being ill and because of that he was
hospitalized and he was diagnosed with bipolar and depression. Nkosi says that
the union and company failed him because when they proceeded with the process he was in ICU and they never
gave him the opportunity to voice out his concerns as they should do like the procedure
states. “This brought so many changes into my life because I ended up being
mentally disturbed because I didn’t believe that I was jobless” Nkosi said.
There is more to feeling good about yourself if you bring positivity in your
life and gaining the confidence you had before can make many other aspects of
your life plan seem more achievable. Nkosi concentrated on getting better on
his health and went for counselling and spoke with his family for further help
to ensure that they were also fine with this change in their lives. Mrs Alina
Nkosi said that “I put myself in an understanding position and understood that
my husband needed all the support that I could give him.” If you work to build
your confidence you become better at withstanding the life’s challenges.
Things
to do before it is too late and spending less
We all make plans for the
future but sometimes we tend to wait for a long time before doing them. Setting
our goals for the future is important, it would be disappointing if you had
goals and never achieved them especially when you work hard to make sure that
your family has everything they need and you can give them all their basic
needs. When you get retrenched you need to think of all the important things
you have to do before the money they give you finishes. Nkosi says that he
thought of his family first and what they had to have. He said that it is wise
to pay of all your debts but most important is to invest the money. Very
few people can claim to have all the money they need so when you are retrenched
it is only wise to reduce on your monthly spending on unnecessary things.
Budgeting is really important and these are the things that you have to budget
for
·
Your fixed monthly outgoings
·
Your regular household bills
·
Food and other living expenses
·
What you spend on entertainment
Opportunities
that will help you get over this
When you have been
retrenched you finally find that you have time on your hands, and this can feel
very strange and unsettling after a long and busy life of working. Nkosi says
that one way of filling the time you suddenly have is to develop new interests
and volunteering is one of them. Volunteering is not just about helping other
people but it’s also about helping yourself. “I volunteer at the nearest NGO
called Heart beat where we work with
orphans and even though I don’t get paid at the end of the month I must say I
am happy because I love and enjoy what I do and it brings great joy in my life
and I’m doing it for my society” Nkosi said. You can volunteer in so many
places like schools, families, prisons, charities, hospitals and so many other
places.
We all have different life
plans and we all start from somewhere equally as ambitious and goals vary widely,
but the minute you are told that you don’t have a job that sounds very daunting
and feels like your life has just ended because you are not sure how you will
end up living with so many things happening around us with the recessions but
at the end of the day you have to live a happy life and make it happen.
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