Sometimes when people are boycotted it's deserved--perhaps. Othertimes people are undeserved boycotted. Maybe people don't like you. Or maybe you say something they don't like, so they boycott you.
You can be a famous person, like Michael Richards, banned from the comedy clubs. Or, you can be an ordinary person. Maybe you're in some community, and you get in trouble with the wrong so-called community leaders, who decide to boycott you.
Maybe you're a whistleblower--public or private.
Maybe you try to take the wrong people to court, and they decide to make sure you "never work in that town again."
There are many reasons that people are boycotted.
Where you deserve to be boycotted or not, here are some things that you can do.
1. If you're banned from working in a certain business or industry, then try to find a job in another business or industry. It's not necessary for you to work in entertainment, for example, if people ban you from the clubs. Is there another industry you can work in? Maybe a corporation might allow you to work for them?
2. If you "never work in this town again," then you might have to move to another town, another community. Try to find another town where you are allowed to work. You don't have to stay in that town. If you just want to stay there and be shunned and ostracized do so, if not, move to another town, maybe even another country.
3. If you're a nationally known person banned and everybody is joining in, then you might be able to find work in another country, if you have the resources. If you're internationally known, and every country is banning you, then you might have to rely upon friends to help you, if you have any.
4. Also, you don't have to work in your own name. Is it possible for you to work in a pen name or anonymously? If it's possible, then find that type of work. Maybe friends or an attorney can help you to work in a pen name or anonymously.
5. Start your own company or business. If it's necessary for someone else to be the owner in order for people to do business with you, find someone else who agrees to be the owner. You can work anonymously as an association, maybe owning a small percentage of the company.
6. Try to find the type of career that people can't ban or boycott you. If this is possible, then try to have this type of career. Let's say you're a teacher and you say something some local school board doesn't like and so they don't want you as a teacher, then find a different career. You don't have to continue as a teacher. Or maybe you have a few people that continue to trust you as a teacher. They might allow you to work as a tutor for their children and pay you. Or, you can find a different career. Again, you can go to another community. Of course, if you're a teacher and you truly like that type of work, of course, you don't like being boycotted. But if so, find another career. You might start your own homeschool in another community, where you said in the other community, doesn't mean a great deal. Maybe you said what you said in a small provincial town and a larger town or a big city doesn't mind that type of talk at all. It's ordinary conversation.
7. Find anonymous work. Again, there are many types of jobs where you can work anonymously for companies, where people don't have to know it's you. Or you can have friends like with the screenwriters who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era wrote screenplays in pen names and their friends helped them. Of course, some of these blacklisted writers didn't have any friends, so they had to figure out something else to do.
8. Economize. If you know you are going to have very little money, then you must discipline your use of the funds that you have.
9. Substitute another provider. This means, that for example, if you've been the principle provider for your family, but now you're banned, then your family cannot look towards you for the same level of income. Is there anybody else in the family that can now take over the responsibilities of principle provider? You do what you can.
10. Buy a farm. If you have enough money, then buy a small farm and become a gentleman or gentlewoman farmer. Many of your provisions can be handled by this farm. If you have friends, then they can help you in buying this farm. Mostly you have to try to have some sort of "career" that others likes and dislikes and banning cannot interfere with your ability to earn money and sustain yourself and those who depend upon you for reasons. Again, this farm can be in another country.
