The Setback Was Never Real

The Setback Was Never Real!

They Lost Their Jobs. They Found Themselves.

What would you do if your job disappeared tomorrow?

Not in a hypothetical, dinner-table-conversation way. Actually disappeared. A 12-minute meeting. A Tuesday morning. "Your position has been eliminated." Done. That's what happens to three people at the same Bangalore tech company on the same day. Arjun is 24. He's never been anything other than "software engineer at GlobalSoft." Meera is from Jaipur - her mother lives on a teacher's pension so her daughter can have a career in Bangalore. Rajan has 16 years of experience, a corner office, and suddenly no reason to wake up at 6 AM.

One of them meets a stranger at a chai stall who changes everything. One of them falls apart - until her mother shows up at her door after 24 hours on a train, without being asked. One of them discovers that his teenage children don't actually know him. 

If you've ever felt replaceable - or worried that you might be - this book is the conversation nobody is having honestly. It also includes a practical playbook: How to Survive a Layoff - The First 90 Days, because some books should leave you with more than just a feeling.