Got fired from my job

That is a bummer... the bright side is, if I'm not mistaken when you're fired you can collect unemployment, whereas if you quit a job you cannot. That's why, the last time I was an employee (at an awful company), they chose to force me out by making my life a living hell until I couldn't take it anymore and quit. So at least they have the decency to just let you go! If this helps at all try to think of your last two weeks as an application for your next job... so you can say you were productive up until the end even though you were being let go.

I think the hardest part of this is kicking yourself because you think its your fault. 
Somehow...I believe there is a reason for everything,,,even if you can't figure it out. As someone said,,pick your head up and move on!  I KNOW its easier said then done. When you loose your job, it plays on your confidence...you end up feeling like you just can't do anything.  I think that is a natural feeling,,,and you will get over it somehow.  Its good that they are giving you the oppertunity for that month paycheck..Lord knows you probably need it...but its hard going there to earn that paycheck I'm sure.  I do believe you should be able to collect unemployment while looking for a job after you leave there,,,as long as you don't quit. Being fired doesn't give you an automatic chance to collect...but as long as it can be said that "you didn't fit in" or "it didn't work out" you should collect.   Just don't do anything on your way out so they can say that you weren't trying or you were not following instructions...etc.
It was just a year ago last month that I lost my job,,,the place closed down.  It tore me up,,,and none of it was my fault. The worry and concern was terrible. I did collect unemployment but the whole time I worried about what I would do,, how would I find a job,,etc. It was a terrible time,,so I know what you are going thru.  I did completely change fields...signed up to Monster.com and a few others...and found my current job as a receptionist to a vet. Complete turn around as I did computerized embroidery for my whole working career.   Every day I came home from work and said to DH "well I didn't get fired today!"   That was in June,,,its Dec and I still have a job there. 
If I made it,,,you sure will!
Good luck!

tashakota, there have been times where I've learned more about myself and more about how to do a job WELL by leaving than I have any other time.
 
For MANY reasons, stay your time out. 
 
1.  First off, it's right before Christmas and it's impossible (darned near) to find anything.
 
2.  Most importantly, you have spent several months trying to repair what you screwed up on.  Honestly, people WILL have noticed that. 
 
The biggest thing you need out of these folks, aside from a month's pay, is A GOOD reference. 
 
Whatever the reason they've let you go, it wasn't horrible or you would have been gone like yesterday.  So use the next weeks/days to make yourself look absolutely AWESOME in their eyes. Because it is more common that when a person knows their time is limited they just slack off.
 
BUT, it will say all sorts of wonderful things about your personal integrity if you pour out your best effort just because you want to see the job finished properly.  Not for any 'gain' other than to do a job well.
 
And frankly that gets noticed.  And when you go elsewhere you can use these people with pride as a reference.  "The job just wasn't a fit for me, but they seemed to like me -- please call them".
 
THAT gets you another job way easier than "oh, please don't call them". 
 
Personal integrity is rather uncommon in many places today -- but it is still your most valuable asset.
 
I've been screwed over many times in the past but how you 'exit' tells people a ton about your personality.  In fact, the job I have today I got because one of the partners at the last place I worked really thought I got "the shaft" in a bad way -- but he also had seen me go way above and beyond "the call of duty" many, many times in the past (including another job where another employee simply knifed me in the back because it suited her at the time, but to this day it is ME who has the good relationship with the former boss).  When I was temping for my present boss, he *knew* this other attorney and asked me and the other guy said (and I'm SO proud I can actually put this in quotes):: "YES, if you hire her she'll do a good job and she WILL watch your back!!"  To a sole proprietor it was the best recommendation anyone could ever have given me. 
 
I've always figured I was above taking the easy way out -- that does no one any 'good' and it makes you exactly what they thot you were when they decided to give the job to someone else.  But honestly being able to speak well of prior employers is the best thing to recommend YOU.

ORIGINAL: jones

That is a bummer... the bright side is, if I'm not mistaken when you're fired you can collect unemployment, whereas if you quit a job you cannot. That's why, the last time I was an employee (at an awful company), they chose to force me out by making my life a living hell until I couldn't take it anymore and quit. So at least they have the decency to just let you go! If this helps at all try to think of your last two weeks as an application for your next job... so you can say you were productive up until the end even though you were being let go.

I agree, and it speaks well of your really "turning over a new leaf" instead of just giving it lip service.  In most states, when a prospective employer calls your previous one, they are allowed to say that you worked there, and whether they would hire you back.  Perhaps, if you stay the two weeks, and really are productive, you could ask your superiors if they would answer that last question in the affirmative as a result of your effort.  It might help you in the long run.