Even if you’re an employee, you can think of yourself as a free agent. Manage your career and your job on separate tracks. Your career is likely to last much longer.
It’s your responsibility to create a career for yourself, not your employer’s. Your relationship with any company is based on mutual interest. If they don’t have an interest in keeping you around, they won’t. You should remember that and approach the situation the same way.
You don’t have a job. A job is not a thing you have. A job is a thing you do. For now.
You have a set of skills. You have the ability to add to that set of skills, and to choose the direction in which you want it to grow.
You have a network and a reputation. You have the ability to add to that network. You have the ability to grow and improve that reputation.
The job is transient compared to the situation around it.
