When employment termination is not a bad thing

My friend called me to inform that she had been terminated from her employment.

Before I could say something to comfort her, she went on to say that her colleagues envied her, and nearly everyone wished that they could get employment termination letter too.

Well, I was very shocked to hear this.

It is not always that employment termination produces such happiness.

One of her colleagues is pregnant.  She hopes to get the employment termination letter after the end of her maternity leave.

It seems that the company has a really hostile working environment.  If she resigns on her own accord, she has to work another month, and still get the same pay.

My friend worked in this company for less than a month.  Since the company initiated the termination, it had to pay her notice in lieu.

Due to the fact that her luck was good when she played slot machines, she had a total win of a few thousand dollars.

Add that to her income and income from notice in lieu, her cash flow for this month exceeds ten thousand dollars.

I ended up congratulating her instead of offering consolation

I dearly wish I have her good luck.  If I were as lucky in stock market investment as she was in playing slot machines, I really could look forward to early retirement.

However, I do not wish for employment termination.  My friend just does not have the luck to get high paying job in good working environment.

It is too insulting, even if my colleagues were to congratulate me.

I do not have the courage to look for another job, and tell the future employers that I have been terminated from service.

I think each of us is lucky in different ways.

Some of us are lucky to get a good job, and stay on for the rest of our lifetime.

Some of us are lucky in side income, earning more from our hobbies than full time employment.

Some of us are lucky enough to have rich parents, and inheritance not to work for money.

Some of us are lucky in speculating in the stock market, and in playing card games or slot games.

Some of us are born for business, with good business acumen.

However, it is rare to find someone who is lucky in all accounts.  Those who are lucky to hold the same job over 40 years, are not that fortunate in investment.

I think for my friend, employment termination is not such a bad thing.

If everyone wants to leave a company, and yet cannot find other job, that is more tortuous.