Looking for a job

I lost my job in the year 2016 due to VSS exercise at the age of 40. I have been working for the company for the past 12 years with the expectation of retiring from the company. It was a better company to work for comparing my previous companies. Getting VSS was not in my preparation for life change. Never had the idea that I will lose my job 1 day. Around 400 of us got the package that time.  I thought by always delivering my work as good as I can and loyalty was still the thing ... but unfortunately I was naive with a lot of things at that time.  For the last 12 years I never had the plans of changing a company, updating my resume or going for an interview, therefore the last 12 years I was out of touch with what recent things people do and prepare for their CVs and interviews. I should have updated and brushed up on my cv and interviews every couple of years. At least my interviewing skills will not be out of touch if I did that. That was a big mistake I learned after I left the company

With 15 years of total working experience, I thought to myself that shouldn't be a problem of getting a job since I have many years of it compared to my fresh grad days..... Another naive type of mindset I had also. The reality for me was having a lot more experience was more difficult to find a job compared to my fresh grad days. I got my 1st job after 2 months of grad and that was during an economic downturn, however, for myself having 15 years of total experience, would involve more than 2 months to get a new job. The logic behind this was that when you are more experienced, the salary scale was rather difficult to fit you compare to a fresh grad, and apart from that don't apply for the entry-level type of job, because it will be wasting your time. They would prefer to have some fresh grad to do it and pay low for that and it will not be logical to pay a very high experience person even though you asked for a low pay job to survive. In that job market world, everyone has their own place. You just have to ask about your "place". 

The metaphysics part about looking for a job is that, when it's not your time, it's not, and when it is your time, it is and it has been decided by Allah your sustenance time. You will not take other people's sustenance nor other people will take yours and sometimes you will be wondering how come I got this job so easy when at the beginning you think you were not fit for it. The answer because it's been decided upon it is yours. Yes, you still need to work hard to look for it but do not dwell on it or be angry about it if you cannot get it because when the time comes for you to have it, no one else could take that away from you. Sometimes you are being detoured to get to something better, brushing up with many interviewing skills and finally that day will come for you to have it. Just be patient about it and trust that Allah will do His job for you. He never leaves your sustenance empty since the 1st day in your mother's womb and nor will He until your sustenance expiry date comes and that's where the day you leave this worldly life. 

My lesson learnt from this whole thing is everything is temporary, and I shouldn't have the mindset that at the beginning it will be permanent. Even though they so call tell you it's a permanent job. There is nothing permanent in this world. It's temporary because all of us is on a journey and we were just stopping by at certain milestone to get a rest, learnt from people,  help people and be kind to people and then move on again until our journey end. "45 years went by like a smoke into a keyhole" -from the movie The Bucketlist, and yes that's fast how life went by especially in the last 20 years. Another thing, if you feel lonely, crying alone and feel like going into moody circumstances once in a while, get help as fast as you could. Don't take mental health lightly because it is part of our health and it's the most important part because what we think determined our actions and attracts the universal law. We are what we thinketh. Visiting a psychologist or psychiatrist doesn't mean we are crazy, it means we are responsible people to take our health concerns seriously. 

The key question to all of this experience... Is there still a loyalty value in the corporate world nowadays? Everyone has their own interpretation .... what does loyalty exactly mean???....