Not to worry, I am not out of a job or job hunting (I happen to like my job and stay pretty busy). There are however many blogs an websites emerging dealing with people that are that situation. Not the typical "Here's what you need to do" mumbo-jumbo, but real people documenting the experience they are having while trying to market themselves and survive in this down economy. It is interesting to see how people adapt in these trying times. Through other economic turmoil in history there have always been retrospects and compilations of peoples experiences gathered after the fact. But there are many people that you can read about the experience that they are having right now and what they are feeling.
As a people we (Americans) are pretty resilient. No matter the situation whether natural disaster or man-made crisis we tend to pull our selves up and move on. These blogs are examples of people doing just that. Our history is littered with stories of people doing that exact same thing and in fifty or an hundred years we may read about some of these people that overcame hardship and re-invented themselves and learned how to survive in a different economy than they were accustomed to.
Take time to read about these people who don't ask for pity or judgment. They are just sharing the experience of being American.
Laid Off blogs:
Laid Off Loser (Boise guy documenting the experience- videos from media as well)
Laid Off Artists Survivor Guide
10 Steps for Those Who Get Laid Off
Laid Off Dad
Recently Laid Off
Jobless and Less
1 comment:
Oh my goodness! Love the 'inspirational' poster. I never really thought of all those displaced Storm Troopers, how heartless of me. And Endor... no work there either thanks to those darn furballs!
Better to lift yourself up than to get bogged down in the mire of jobless gloom and doom.
~Stacey
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