The Extreme Suffering of Professional Reversals - Emptying Ourselves

 It was the mid 1970s, the market for humanities college professors went poof. There was no sign of recovery, at least not during the timeframe in which we Ph.D. students should be getting our careers started. 

Most of us hung around illusion too long befoe we eventually pulled the plug and cast ourselves into trying out other ways to make a living. I don't think any of us "moved on." Not in the sense of healing. After all the sunk costs included six years of our youth, jumping through hoops of qualifying examinations, living frugally, putting up with the arrogance and nastiness of those we thought could help us, and plans to do such important intellectual work.

But a number of us did luck out and were able to leverage our communications skills in corporate communications and research ability into management consulting. That hasn't made much of a difference, though.The lump of pain hardened into permanent self-doubt. How could we who had been golden have stumbled into such disaster.

The analogue has been this: lawyers I have coached who had been forced out of their positions as associates and even as partners. All their interior wires kept and keep blinking as if that time had been the present. The emotions remain in the past. 

Through coaching, some did make it onto another career path. That was the narrow objective. None had been burdened with any form of toxic positivity. Both I the coach and they the coached had borne witness to so much suffering by others who hadn't been allowed really inside the success corridors of being a brandname player in the legal sector. 

More recently I experienced another of my own professional disappintments. I assumed (of course, never assume) I would become a part of law firm Paul Weiss. Yes, I do move-the-dial kinds of communications assignments as a vendor on retainer. Chief Marketing Offcicer Luke Ferrandino never made such an assignment. Not in the two months I had been on that retainer to Paul Weiss. I will never know why, will I? I was not allowed inside.

To conjure up the illusion I was doing something I posted about Paul Weiss on a blog, which I have since ended after 16 years. 


The Tarot, which I give readings in, recommends we "empty" ourselves when we come undone. I emptied that blog space. The release is profound. 

On June 1, 2022, I had resigned from that vendor whatever with Paul Weiss. That ended the business part. But those inner wires keep blinking. I have a hunch that will continue for some time, at least until I can cobble together fresh hope.

Fortunately, in a low-key way the Tarot delivers messages of optimism. Essentially they go like this: The way is there. The trick is becoming open enough to access it. 

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