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How to Rebuild Identity After Career Loss

I lost my job of fifteen years and my identity feels completely erased, like I don't know who I am when I'm not solving problems for other people.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When work becomes identity, unemployment feels like existential erasure.

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