Your Position Has Been Abolished

YOUR POSITION HAS BEEN ABOLISHED

How To Lose Your Job Before You Actually Lost It.

Book One of “The Recommissioning Series”

Genre: Non-Fiction / Humanitarian Career Development, and Professional Resilience

There is an illusion that most professionals carry for most of their careers: the job stops being something you do, and it becomes something you are. In the volatile landscape of the humanitarian sector, where positions exist solely because funding and programming needs align, this attachment creates structural fragility. When restructurings arrive—as they inevitably do—the disruption threatens not just your income, but your very sense of self.

Written with direct, unvarnished honesty by a veteran HR professional who has sat on every side of the restructuring table, Your Position Has Been Abolished is an essential strategic guide to professional longevity. Steven Ssamba delivers a profound, human conversation about what organizational change actually costs the people inside it. Moving past surface-level future-proofing advice, this book introduces the Daily Demotion Practice—the daily, deliberate, and voluntary release of the current form of your work so that you can grow into what comes next. Grounded in two decades of field experience, this book teaches you how to separate your capability from your job description, build an independent parallel identity, and establish structural financial resilience. This manual ensures that when your position ends, you are not abolished with it; instead, you remain standing fully, securely on yourself.

What You’ll Explore Inside This Volume.

– Deconstruct the structural realities of episodic funding, contract metrics, and the hidden downstream “ripple effect” that single donor decisions project onto extended family systems.

– Master a continuous discipline of professional becoming using three structured horizons: the daily question of execution, the weekly inventory of method, and the monthly stretch toward adjacent capabilities.

– Learn to weaponize existing institutional channels through the execution of a “Quarterly Self-Exit Interview,” proactive skill arbitrage, asset diversification, and the cultivation of an independent parallel identity.