So you’re in an industry or business. You know how widgets and things work in them. Your last job you spend 10/20/30 years fixing problems and making shit better. You likely know the competitors. See what they have for posted jobs available. See if they have jobs for “SME” subject matter expert, if they don’t, then scoure around linked in or their corp site and look for managers you’d normally report to. Reach out to them.
I talk and write pretty good but let’s see if ai can fine tune my words.
Prompt:
Just laid off, 20+ years in an unnamed industry, lots of experience, and wisdom of the business, processes, solutions. I want to consult for competitors to help streamline and use what I know for them.
Write me a pitch to give to a would be manager (my manger) on how I can solve problems, help the company become more agile, and provide my skills on a consulting basis to their company, division, group.
> I’ve spent more than 20 years in this industry, and over that time I’ve developed not only operational knowledge, but also a deep understanding of the processes, inefficiencies, decision points, and real-world challenges that impact execution and growth. Rather than stepping away from that experience entirely, I’d like to explore the possibility of supporting your team on a consulting basis. I believe I can provide immediate value by helping identify bottlenecks, improving workflows, streamlining communication and operational processes, and offering practical solutions grounded in years of hands-on experience. Because I already understand the industry, terminology, customer expectations, and internal dynamics, there would be very little ramp-up time. My goal would be to help your organization become more agile, efficient, and scalable while providing leadership and teams with an experienced outside perspective focused on solving problems and driving results. I’m flexible in how this could be structured — project-based, advisory, operational support, process improvement, mentoring, or strategic consulting — depending on where you see the greatest need. I’d welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience could help support your group and contribute value moving forward.
Now that jargon is more generic and you might need to pepper in terms for your type of work, but it basically opens conversations for “we all know problems exist, and I fixed them here, and after I fixed them across my tenure, they decided that the younger generation could carry on forward.”
Small problem there. The company that discarded me doesn't have any direct competitors. If they did, they bought them. Not going to name any names, but you can probably figure it out if you looked them up. We served electricity to most of the east coast.
I don't want to because I have no desire to find who you are. You are a White man, thats all that matters. So let me approach this a different way.
You have some kinda skill, there is a company somewhere else in this country that could use those skills. I have never said "yeah your fucked" and likely never will, you might be the first case, but I aint no head hunter, I am just a guy that did his own thing since the start.
I had a guy once tell me "Do what you love is the dumbest suggestion ever, as if your broke for ever you life will be shit, since you cant feed yourself. So what the real key is, 'figure out how to make money of doing what you love', figure that out once and you can do it for anything."
But outside of fucking Internet rhetoric, your company simply can't be the only one in the nation doing what it does. Unless it's making shit for the fucking government. But let's say you worked for a company that provided electric to all of Oklahoma....no competition.....now they fired you.... well your fucked.
Or, let's look outside the box. You had skills, the guys developing data center plans likely would benefit from knowing some of the inside how shit happens, how much power is available based on substations, or weak spots where not to build, lack of redundancy, that kind of shit. Say you knew that....could you not pitch them to provide consulting to help them better target areas at the minimum, or site review, I mean you might not be an engineer, just a fucking lineman lets say.....what knowledge you got? Well you might know that for the last 5 years this trunk line is fucking weak as shit and fails often....you wouldn't want a data center there. I got zero knowledge how to market that....but I would have if I dug a little and used some ai.
Fuck, just start with AI.
"I was a lineman for Jew coast power for the last 40 years and I want to work another 10 years, I am trying to take my knowledge and apply it to some type of consulting or other prong of this industry. I cant move, and electric is only provided by a single provider in this area (name it for AI). give me a list of 7 companies or directions where I might apply this knowledge"
1) Faggot Power - is a small power company 33 miles away that sub bills and maintains their on trunk lines for boomer retirement community 2) Cocksuck Data Centers - needs expertise to understand the shortcomings of Jew coast power 3) Battery Fags - they are deploying standby power and you might provide a value 4) Solar Kike Suckers - same as battery fags 5) Giga-dildo builds homo consumed 80v cock rockets, they could use you to advise on ....insert something here ai finds 6) Super secret gov bunker fuckers can always use expertise like you
you should be getting the idea....I have far too much to do right now to keep at this, but for some reason this is important to me.
So try some AI, grok, or chatgpt, and pose some questions.
Otherwise just lay low, burn as little money as possible, and setup a webpage to do consulting for what you did. Then hope the shitbags that laid you off have something fuck up they got zero ideas about and then need help....and instead of them paying $43 bucks a day, they can pay you $250 an hour.....won't last long, but still something. And no you can't fix things in hours, it takes weeks, it takes you doing an analysis of the problem, listing your findings, and your proposed solutions for the problems. That takes 60-80 man hours @ $250 an hour. But you worked for us for $23 bucks an hour. Keyword is WORKED. Past Tense. That enlies their problem.
The only other option is pray, and ask The Lord to show you the sign, and when he does go do it. Might be something totally different, might be digging in the dirt, might be selling fucking tires. Who knows. But when he shows you, listen, go do it, and assess.
Hope that helps. I gotta get back to my backlog of shit from last week while I was fucking sick.