Book One · Prevention
Hard to Fire
The Practical Survival Guide for Staying Valuable, Using AI, and Protecting Your Income Before the Next Layoff
Nobody is fireproof. Make yourself harder to cut and ready if they do.
What this book helps you do
Protect the job. Keep your footing. Keep your options.
Hard to Fire shows you how value, visibility, risk, and corporate politics move through a company, so you can act before a calendar invite turns your week upside down.
It won't make you fireproof. It gives you skills they need, a reputation they value, and more security during layoffs.
Before the meeting
Five answers that build leverage before layoffs.
The companion tools turn these questions into useful working answers: a clearer read on your role, language for your value, a credible next direction, a realistic household runway, and a plan for a hard conversation. They're not a course or required reading. Use the tools that give you answers to the specific problems on your plate.
- How exposed is your role?See which pressure factors are putting your current role at risk.
- Can others see your value?Put your accomplishments into language a decision-maker can verify.
- What is your next credible move?Build a next-role story from work you have already done.
- How much runway do you have?Calculate your burn, runway, and how concentrated your household income is.
- What would you do in the first 72 hours?Close the gaps that would turn a layoff into a reconstruction project.