The First Seven Days After a Career Setback
Joseph Mamola
Published
Spec piece written as a ghostwriting portfolio sample.
The First Seven Days After a Career Setback
A practical, reader-first article for professionals navigating a career setback: a layoff, a missed promotion, a stalled search. It gives the reader a two-pile mental model for separating what they can’t change from what they control, a concrete seven-day plan (resume refresh while details are fresh, five plain-spoken conversations, one coffee chat a day, honest runway math), scripts for answering “what happened” without sounding like you’re on trial, and a daily structure that keeps the week from dissolving into scrolling and replaying. Direct second person, short scannable sections, concrete actions in every paragraph. 776 words.
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