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The precarious economy has lots of people worried. They’re especially concerned that they’ll lose their jobs. It’s no wonder that you see more “How To Keep Your Job” articles on the web and in today’s newspapers and magazines.

If you can sum up the advice in these articles, like the one written by Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology: Truth and Lies About What We Buy, in the prestigious Parade Magazine, it’s “become indispensable to your boss.”

Lindstrom proceeds to offer five pithy tips to make sure your neck is far from the chopping block when the ax falls. They include:

• Define what makes you different from your colleagues. (Maybe a lack of integrity?)
• Do one thing well. (How about: stroke your boss’s ego?)
• Communicate your brand. (Hmmm. How do you brand desperation?)
• Create a signature look. (Like a clown suit?)
• Leave a personal mark behind. (Like a lip mark on the behind?)

I have no doubt that these ideas might keep you on the job, but at what price? That’s the question.

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When those pink slips are passed out and those cardboard boxes appear on desks, most workers have pity and remorse for their soon-to-be departed colleagues.

But, it may be the unemployed who should pity the workers who still have a job.

First, the work load will increase without their fellow helpers there to shoulder some of the burden.

Another reason is that while the laid-off worker has accepted his or her fate, the current employees are still left with the anxiety that their positions may be the next head on the chopping block.

And, according to a survey (found in the June 29the edition of the Investor’s Business Daily), workers who are laid-off actually getting their lives together!

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