Manual № 66 · Job loss and career transition

WhatComesNext

The manual for job loss and career transition.

The search is a job. The part nobody helps with is who you are while you do it.

12 modules — for the person who lost a job, or is leaving one, and has to find what is next

  1. 01What Just Happened
  2. 02The First Two Weeks
  3. 03A Plan for the Bad Days
  4. 04Who You Are Without the Job
  5. 05Telling People
  6. 06What the Mind Does With Being Let Go
  1. 07Building a Week With Nothing In It
  2. 08The Arithmetic of a Search
  3. 09Applications and Asks
  4. 10The Interview Is a Skill, Not a Verdict
  5. 11The Offer, and the Job That Is Not the One You Wanted
  6. 12The Long Middle, the Return, and Staying Ready

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how strong the evidence behind it actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Triage Board
  2. 02Counting the Funnel
  3. 03Inoculation: Deciding Now What You Will Do When It Goes Wrong
  4. 04If-Then Plans for the Hours You Avoid
  5. 05The Record for a Rejection
  6. 06The Weak-Tie Map
  7. 07The Ask, in Six Sentences
  1. 08The Ninety-Second Account
  2. 09One Job, One Document
  3. 10Rehearsal That Works
  4. 11Values as a Direction When the Map Is Gone
  5. 12Unhooking From "I Am Unemployable"
  6. 13Scoring the Week by Effort
  7. 14The First Ninety Days

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.