I Handled the Layoff Fine. Then Someone Asked What I Do.

What do you say when "what do you do" no longer has an answer? I was laid off after ten years, and the hard part wasn't the layoff itself; it was that question. That quiet loss of professional identity nobody prepares you for when the title that defined your career is suddenly gone. → ATP Field Notes (every Tuesday): https://www.atpallthingspossible.com/... → Next Level Audit (free): https://www.atpallthingspossible.com/... → Free Clarity Call: https://www.atpallthingspossible.com/... Watch This Next: "3 Signs You've Outgrown the Career You Built"    • 3 Signs You've Outgrown the Career You Built   Chapters 0:00 Someone asked what I did for a living 1:15 The résumé line that stopped working 2:46 Truth One — What That Sentence Was Actually Carrying 3:50 Truth Two — What The Panic Is Actually About 5:56 Truth Three — Where The New Sentence Actually Comes From 6:56 Truth Four — What Doing This More Than Once Actually Means 7:42 This Week's One Move #LaidOff #CareerIdentity #WhatDoYouDo #ParallelCareer #DrivenProfessionals ATP — All Things Possible — is the coaching practice of Shafiq Haddad, based in the Bay Area, California. The work is with mid-career professionals who are good at their jobs but have stopped growing. The method runs Clarity, Strategy, Build: name what you actually want to build, then build it alongside the career already in place rather than instead of it. Shafiq spent his career in global creative and design leadership at major fashion and brand performance houses, and founded the men's professional activewear brand IN MOTU.