Comments on: Take Your Career to the Next Level–When, Why, Who and How to Fire People https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38607 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:05:24 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38607 In reply to Margaret Crowley.

It’s outdated. I’d recommend getting my new one “Rise of the Machines”. Anything in WANA that was still salient is is ROM. And the step-by-step is current and there’s an entire section on how to blog to connect to readers.

]]> By: Margaret Crowley https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38606 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:14:10 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38606 Kristin, I was trying to buy your book WE ARE NOT ALONE in Kindle format but its not available on Amazon. Is there somewhere I can buy it in e-format or PDF? (It’s up on PDF here but I thought it might be pirated http://www.ebookpdf.cc/we-are-not-alone-the-writers-guide-to-social-media-w…?
Thanks – Margaret

]]> By: Rachel Thompson https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38605 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:31:37 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38605 My background (35 years) before becoming a freelance writer was the construction business. The publishing industry is remarkably similar to the construction industry and that is no surprise. Why? Because business is business.
What I have observed is this; creative types are often bad at business-they run the other way. I am a right brain creative type ( writer, painter and musician) and I mastered business in deed and concept. Artists of every kind need to understand that mastering the art, no matter what kind, is only haft the required effort. Writers must switch hats if they want success. I did it, so can you.
I just got a contract, for example, for my second novel that I rejected because I understand contracts and this was a bad deal. Every writer needs to be an educated player in this game of business called publishing. If I were a star-eyed writer I would have screwed myself on that contract. Lots of other writers get screwed by lack of understanding. Don’t hurt your self, learn the ropes.

]]> By: Julie Glover https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38604 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:37:17 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38604 I’ve been fired from exactly one job. They had a good reason, but I violated a company rule I didn’t know existed. My only wish was that I’d been given a chance to correct my error. But they went for one strike, you’re out.

I SHOULD have been fired from my waitress job (while in college), because honestly I was TERRIBLE. I am forgetful by nature (“Oh, I forgot you ordered that!”) and clumsy (spilled and tripped all the time). I would have fallen right into that Inept category when it comes to waitressing. I did learn, however, to tip better after doing this job.

Excellent post, Kristen! Thanks for the great advice.

]]> By: creativityorcrazy https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38603 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:17:59 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38603 Never been fired, but had to sit in on a firing once. Not comfortable at all.

]]> By: Holly Michael https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38602 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:34:06 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38602 Sometimes I’d like to fire family members and “well-meaning” friends.

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38601 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:32:32 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38601 In reply to Elle Carter Neal.

Thanks. I think it was the stock model was easier to work with instead of a picture of me. He rocked it.

]]> By: Elle Carter Neal https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38600 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:57:56 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38600 Your cover designer thought he could find a prettier model for the cover? No way!

]]> By: Donna Thompson https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38599 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:53:03 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38599 I was fired from the Bank of Montreal by a so-called professional in administration who went about it all wrong–not professional in any sense of the word. And I told her that. I feel I was let go unfairly and was affected by it for many years. I was in training when they fired me, they should have had the professionalism to at least let me finish the training. I earned my diploma in Bank Telling so the interest was there, but not the professional support on their part. I learned to hate and mistrust people after that, because to be fired at a young age is to be devastated to the max. At a young age you look up to people, you rely on them for guidance. You want to do good, you want to impress people, so being fired was a hard cruel blow to my fragile but determined spirit.

]]> By: danielocceno https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/08/take-your-career-to-the-next-level-when-why-who-and-how-to-fire-people/#comment-38598 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:36:35 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12652#comment-38598 The Fraternal Orders causing trouble for me the past 30 years would tell people that they were not trying to get me fired because I would be able to collect unemployment until I could find another job. They were trying to get me to quit, like quit college. It is like today, to quite writing. Now, the strategy is that I cannot take my wealth with me when I die so why bother trying to be successful. They believe I can be so why would I quit until I die? Priests as the house father of fraternity houses lose logic when they cannot bring pledges to their knees.

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