You're not just looking for a job. You're mourning an identity, a team, a future you thought you had.I don't see enough people talking about this.Everyone gives you tactics. Update your resume. Optimize LinkedIn. Network harder. But nobody acknowledges you're grieving while doing all of it.And when you skip the grief, it leaks out sideways. You perform confidence in interviews you don't feel. You take the wrong offer just to get your identity back. You network from desperation instead of connection.The goal isn't to stop feeling it. The goal is to stop letting it drive your decisions.

If you're in this right now: it's real, it's hard, and it ends.