Unemployment Stories Archives

Unemployment Stories: Can You Recover from Months or Years of Unemployment?

January 18, 2024 Admin Annie Comments 0 Comment

This post is the first of what I hope will become a series, checking back in on folks who once felt stuck in unemployment and despaired of ever getting out among the working again. These stories are unlikely to consist of tales where everyone lived happily ever after. Still I think there is a value to being able to fast forward from someone’s time being unemployed to see what happened. It gives us a chance to see someone’s “future” when…

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Top 10 Ways to Unemployment

January 15, 2024 Admin Annie Comments 0 Comment

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I Gotta Get Out of This Place….

January 14, 2024 Admin Annie Comments 0 Comment

One of the positive things about viewing Unemploymentville as a destination, as a travel destination especially, is it makes it easier to think about it as being some place you travel through as temporary surroundings. There is a reader comment on Amazon on the book, Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass: A Survival Guide for the Recently Unemployed about what if you don’t land on the right side of your ass and they talk about how they took…

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Unemployment, Depression and Animals

January 14, 2024 Guest Post Comments 0 Comment

Three Keys to Cutting Costs While Waiting for a ‘REAL JOB’ You tear open the envelope and stare down at your horse boarding bill for the month. Your eyes widen, the envelope flutters to the ground, and you put your face in your hands. You haven’t had the strength to announce to the world that you’ve just lost your job, and if you don’t hustle, you’re soon going to lose your horse. This is exactly what I experienced when I…

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When Your Friends Call, Answer

January 14, 2024 Guest Post Comments 3 comments

When I decided to quit my job in October 2016, I knew I had some tough times ahead. I knew I’d have to hustle to pay my rent, my bills and my student loans. I knew I had to throw out my current budget, create a much leaner one and preserve the little bit of cash reserves I had on hand. BUT… the hopelessness of watching your savings account dwindle isn’t the worst part of being unemployed. I wasn’t prepared…

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The Professional Student – How To Earn While You Learn

January 14, 2024 Guest Post Comments 0 Comment

I was 17 years old when my son was born. I was also broke, jobless and had a little man relying on me. To be fair, I was just a child, but very quickly realized I was getting nowhere fast. Daycare was too expensive, so working was out of the question. The only option left for me was college, but that was an expense I could not afford. So I found a different way. I received ALL of my schooling…

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