I tell my clients everyone goes through three emotional stages after losing a job: denial, rage and acceptance. I tell them they won’t be able to find a new calling until they move on to the third stage. I tell them world destroyer, god of war, gateway to the apocalypse and earth devourer are no longer acceptable callings.
Most of my clients went through the denial stage centuries ago, when people lost faith in them and the other gods. The rage stage? Well, you could blame a lot of the bloodshed of the last few hundred years on that. My clients may have lost most of their powers along with their followers, but they still know how to work people behind the scenes. Things have been quieter lately, though, thanks largely to the agency’s placement rate. Eighty percent, if you don’t count the
