The Open Laptop
Resume and references triage
What started with the first plan just got more complicated. Now you need to assess your financial runway and make triage decisions quickly — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
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The First Plan
→Enough wallowing. Time to move. Navigate building your 72-hour action plan after getting fired.
Part of the quest
Just Got Fired
→The first hour of shock, the first call you have to make, the first morning after with nothing to do, and the first plan that might actually work. Navigate getting fired in real time.
What you'll learn from The Open Laptop
This scenario focuses on Resume and references triage — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The First Plan, a full interactive story inside the Just Got Fired quest.
Skills you'll build in Just Got Fired
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Three days of wallowing is enough. You sit up, open your laptop, and start building a 72-hour plan. Resume, references, reach-outs — the paralysis breaks, and you start moving.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Updating your LinkedIn without broadcasting desperation — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to assess your financial runway and make triage decisions quickly not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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