＂81% of Americans Terrified of Losing Their Jobs” – Are You Next？
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Are you about to get fired? Yes, you worry about it. Did you go to bed last night worried about losing your job? Did you get a good night s rest last night because you were worried about getting fired? 81% of U.S. workers fear they could lose their jobs in 2025, and 76% expect layoffs to increase across industries. This is a real thing that's taking place today, and we're going to talk about what you can do to have job security in 2025.
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So are you about to get fired? Yes, you. Do you worry about it? Did you go to sleep last night
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worried about losing your job? Because the reality of it is job anxiety right now is the highest it's
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been in America. 81% of U.S. workers fear they could lose their jobs in 2025. 76% expect layoffs
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to increase across industries. This is a real thing that's taking place today.
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We're going to talk about what you can do to have job security in 2025.
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So why is this happening? Number one, the fears widespread layoffs. A lot of companies right
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now laying off. What if my company does this? I work for a big company. That company just let
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go 12,000 people. This company let go 7,000 people. So that's one. Number two, and a big
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part of this is tariffs. My company's telling me we're not making money. Our margins are smaller.
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So we have to let go of certain people. That's a concern. Next one, Glassdoor Confidence Index.
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Record low on Glassdoor. 44% of employees. Only 44% of employees are confident in a company's
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future. This is the lowest level since Glassdoor began tracking this over a decade ago. That's
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a real number that people are looking at today. Next one, remote workers, high anxiety. Remember
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when it used to be like, I got a job. My company's awesome. I get to work from home. Nobody checks
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on me. I watch six movies a day and I sit in front of the screen. It's so awesome. I've
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been Netflix and relaxing, going to the fridge, coming back. No one bothers me. I'm living
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the flipping American dream. They're scared now because companies are saying either come
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back to work or you're fired. The first people companies are firing right now are the people
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that work remote. That's the first to go. 88% expect more companies will require in-office
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office work in 2025. So guess what? If you're watching the same, that's not fair. Don't be
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part of that crowd. Be part of the crowd that comes back to the office without anybody asking
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you to do it. AI acceleration is the other one that's scaring some people that my job's
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going to be replaced by AI, which is not a bad argument. It's probably going to happen
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to a lot of jobs, not all jobs, but it's going to happen to a lot of jobs, especially to those
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who are like, I don't think it'll happen to me. Those are going to be the first people that
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are going to get fired. This other one, this last point on this section is the following.
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So I get it in my neck from a guy the other day. Oh my God, Pat, I'm so worried. I'm having
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a hard time getting a job. I'm like, you're having a hard time getting a job. They call
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that optimism recession, which means people are like, there's no way I can get any job.
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Nothing exists, but employers are hiring. Just yesterday, we hired 12 new salespeople, W2 salary
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commission, full benefits downstairs. I'm going through orientation. There's 12 people walking
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across, getting a tour here. Two weeks ago was 21 in a single day. We're hiring more than ever
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before, but you got to put yourself out there. You can't say, I went to six interviews. I email
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my resume. You got to be proactive. But a lot of people are thinking there aren't jobs out there
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while there is. I'm interviewing a lady who's one of the best in doing events in the country.
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I'm talking, she does events for countries. Like that's the kind of a person comes in. I said,
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why would somebody like you who's made millions of dollars with your own company? Why would you get
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a job? She says, are you not following what's going on with the market? Everybody wants a job today.
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The market sucks. People are worried. They're panicking. I'm like, well, that's a mindset.
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You have a fear-based, and in my mind, you got a fear-based mindset. If everyone around you is
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telling you this, you're also believing it for yourself. All right. So now the question is,
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what can you do to not be fireable? You're unfireable. We don't have to go to sleep worried
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about it. Last night at a meeting here, an emergency meeting, I flew out all my major insurance
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executives. We're here from noon till midnight. We started here in the office and it went till midnight
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at our cigar launch. Great conversation, intense conversation, but a great conversation.
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And one of the things we talked about is what can you do to never fear with growing your business,
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no matter what the market and the economy is. I don't care if the market sucks. I don't care if
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there's new regulation. I don't care who the president is. I don't care what's going on.
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If I look at the news and there's wars and there's division, then there's all this other stuff.
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I'm going to go improve anything I touch. That's a basic mentality. Well, what if they don't
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appreciate you? You can't change the way I'm going to show up. I don't care if you don't appreciate
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me. I'm showing up. What if they're not grateful for you? Your lack of gratitude is not going to
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change the way I show up no matter where I go. Do you want to know why? Let me explain to you why.
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21 years ago, I'm in Atlanta at a meeting where I'm becoming a broker. We're driving back to this
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restaurant and it's an hour and 15 minute drive. Atlanta's got terrible traffic and we're coming
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out from Duluth downtown, coming back up. If you're in Atlanta, you know what I'm talking about. Maybe
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the worst traffic in America. I'm in the back the entire time with my next tail and those, you know,
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you know, alien looking wireless stuff that you would put here. I'm on the phone the entire time on
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the way there, on the way back. I'm calling clients. I'm calling my agents. The entire time
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I'm driving, what's going on when I come back to make sure my schedule is full. Guys are turning
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around and looking at me like this fricking guy. Like who is this guy? I think he is. I'm 25 years
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old at the time. Fast forward 20 years later, I get an email. You know how many DMs and emails I've
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gotten of the people that were on that bus? It was like 45, 50 of us. And they said, Pat, I thought you
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were just an arrogant prick that was trying to show off that you're making calls. 20 years later, you were
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making calls and we weren't. It's very simple. Everyone's watching how you show up every day.
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I don't care where you are. Everybody's watching you. So when you show up, either the boss takes
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notice, either a competitor takes notice, either somebody that's about to be boss takes notice,
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but everybody's watching you. They're also watching the guy that's like, oh, you know what? That's not
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fair. I'm just going to go and pout and sit in the corner. And I don't like this place. It's just unfair.
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They watch that behavior as well. Those people, you are going to get fired. You should get fired,
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matter of fact. Matter of fact, if you're a boss of a person like that, fire them right now. Maybe
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have a conversation with them first and give them a second chance, but make sure you fire them
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afterwards. If you're working for a company, always ask yourself, what is a company's vision
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long-term? You know, because say you're working with somebody. I'm having this conversation yesterday.
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I said, the guy that's run the company you're a part of, yes. How bad does he want to be a billionaire?
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Very. Okay. How long do you think it's going to take him to be a billionaire? Say seven years.
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Great. What does that mean to you? He needs people. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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But imagine you're working at a place that the guy has no drive, no vision, no mission, nothing.
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He's golfing five days a week. Where's the company going? You don't know. So if you have a job,
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you also have to choose a company that you know long-term, where's that company going?
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5, 10, 15, 20 years. The longer you know the vision long-term, the more you're protected,
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especially if you're somebody that wants to work. But if you're out of place and the company has no
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vision, what the hell am I doing here? You got to also make sure you're at a place that the company's
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got a long-term vision. Every 30, 60, 90 days, specifically 90 days, the people that work with
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you should say something happened with this guy. He changed. She changed. What happened? You didn't
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used to do that. How did you learn how to do that? What did you do with this? Late night, no one's paying
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attention. I'm learning a new skillset. I'm learning how to communicate better. Most people don't know what
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we do over here. Just last week, we had Dale Carnegie Institute come with 32 of our managers that
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are in the room. All day long, talk about how to win friends and influence people, except how to
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manage your people better. How can you deliver tough messages in a more gentle way? What can we do?
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That's what it was about because this is something we never get fully perfect at, right? Ritz Carlton
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came and trained our managers. We'll send people to Crucial Learning. We'll send our guys to Harvard,
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Wharton Business School. We send them to different places of management to find ways to upgrade them.
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We're always doing that. You are supposed to do it yourself and you're supposed to do with people
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around them. But if you're somebody that's got a job at a company, shock everybody 90 days and find a
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way to improve. No one's going to say something happened to you. Companies want to keep people
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like that. Next one, I'm talking to Paul, our CTO. He said something very interesting and I fully agree
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with him. He says, the more the people in the company know the numbers and the business, how we make
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money, the more they want to contribute in a better way. Just show them how to make money. The entire
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meeting I had yesterday from noon till midnight was teaching our guys how EBITDA works and saying, the
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investors, the only thing they want to hear is what? EBITDA. You keep making asks, but you don't ask yourself
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what's important to them. When you look at the business and you're like, oh, EBITDA, perfect. What if we grow the
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EBITDA by this percentage? Can we get this? Yes. So now understand the business, whatever company you're a part of,
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understand how they make money, understand how they grow. That's going to give you an edge over
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your peers that are just kind of like, give me a raise. What about this for me? No, no. I want to
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learn about the business so I can help the company grow. And by the way, something very simple that
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everybody's got to be paying attention. I'm using ChadGBT right now more than ever before. I don't
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even know the last time I went on Google to Google anything. It's ChadGBT right now. You have to learn
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the prompts. So whatever job you got, you have to learn all the AI. There's different AI tools. You got to
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look at that cloud computing, cybersecurity, digital marketing, SEO, product management,
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all of that stuff's going to be there. And now long-term, long-term, you know, what's becoming
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very valuable. Do you know why Manect is growing the way that it is? You can ask me any question you
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want. And a guy says to me, Pat, you know, why don't you create an AI ChadGBT that responds based
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on all the books and content you have? You don't need to record and say anything to people. I said,
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no, but let me tell you, the more everything's becoming about machine, the more you're going to
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care that I'm answering this to you in an audio. And I'm talking to you while I'm upstairs changing,
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while I'm washing my hands, while you're hearing my kids in the car, the more human interaction is
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becoming important. AI goes like this. Trust me, the need for human interaction is going to go like
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this. The first thing we all learned during COVID when we're not around each other is what? We wanted
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to be around each other. The same people that annoyed you, you wish they were around you.
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That's never going away. Never. Maybe a thousand years from now when robots are going to take over
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and they're going to fight each other. And we're kind of watching, you know, the URFC,
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ultimate robot fighting champion or whatever that we're going to be watching till that day.
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That's a long time from now. For now, we're going to need that human interaction. Get better at human
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