{"product_id":"you-are-not-your-job-filip-slovenec-9798180733474","title":"You Are Not Your Job: Rebuilding Your Identity, Confidence, and Purpose After Layoff, Downsizing, or Career Collapse","description":"Your job is gone. But that's not the part that's keeping you up at night.\u003cp\u003eYou've updated your resume. You've told everyone you're fine. But somewhere underneath the busy activity of job searching, there's a harder, quieter question you can't shake: \u003cb\u003eIf you're not that title, not that team, not that role-then who are you?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat question is what this book is about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost books about job loss are really books about job search. They teach you how to optimize your LinkedIn, network without feeling desperate, and land the next position. This book goes somewhere those books don't-into the \u003cb\u003eidentity crash\u003c\/b\u003e that happens when the thing you called your career turns out to have been the thing you called yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Are Not Your Job\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm, direct, research-grounded guide for anyone navigating the specific emotional and psychological wreckage of losing work they cared about. Whether you were laid off, downsized, or pushed out-whether you saw it coming or it blindsided you completely-the questions underneath the event are the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages you will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn honest account of what job loss actually is\u003c\/b\u003e-not just a financial event, but an identity disruption, a grief, and a structural collapse that most resources refuse to name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePractical systems for the immediate crisis\u003c\/b\u003e-what to do about money, health insurance, and daily structure in the first days and weeks, without panic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTools for the thought patterns that are making it worse\u003c\/b\u003e-the shame narratives, the spirals, the 3am lies your brain tells you when you're under sustained stress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe relationship complications no one talks about\u003c\/b\u003e-what's happening with your partner, what to say to your kids, how to handle the well-meaning people who keep making it worse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe identity work that actually changes things\u003c\/b\u003e-not a job search, but a life search: finding out who you are when the title is gone, what you actually want from work, and how to build something that doesn't break the next time the ground shifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilip Slovenec writes for the reader who is smart enough to know this is complicated, and honest enough to want the real version rather than the reassuring one. \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not Your Job\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't promise a better career. It helps you become a more complete person-one whose sense of worth doesn't rise and fall with employment status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe floor disappeared. This book helps you build a new one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Filip Slovenec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180733474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Filip Slovenec","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001986916607,"sku":"9798180733474","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-are-not-your-job-filip-slovenec-9798180733474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}