If you get sacked is that the end of your career

Wozzie

In my experience a sacking is typically the fast route to a better job for more money.

It's strange but I guess being canned fills one with a sort of resentful determination to better ones circumstances. Which lets be fair most sackings occur because employers are looking to lay people off, very rarely in my experience do successful companies fire people for anything other than gross misconduct.

That is until things start going badly, then suddenly the supervisor and manager is standing at the door at 8:55 every morning giving verbal warnings to anyone who arrives after 9am.

Last time I got sacked was for repeated lateness. All the times I got there at like 9:02 and that dipshit tapped his watch I thought he was joking.

Still though, had a better job with a 35% pay rise two days later so whatever.

Gingernutty

In answer to the OP's original question

It depends.

On what you were fired for, who fired you, how much clout they have in your chosen profession and how closed professional circle is.

Being fired from a tightly regulated, 'clique-y' job where there are only a few employers and your name is known - forget trying to get back in and just retrain.