Testimonies: Faced with unemployment

by Liane Laskoske

After years of menial jobs in fast food, working around childcare, and learning to type, I finally landed a temp job with a large office furniture manufacturer. After six months, the company hired me as a data entry clerk....read more

by David Castillo

Most people believe that a crisis comes in the form of an accident, drug abuse, or murder, but I'm living proof that a crisis can come in the form of unemployment. It seems that there are only two types of people in this w...read more

by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

I remember when I was once fired from my job and how scared I once was about making ends meet with being suddenly fired and out of work. I felt like there was a black cloud that covered my world, and was scared about havin...read more

by Lisa Fagan

Since 1983, I have not only faced unemployment, I was unemployed. Most of the jobs that I've hadel since then have been either part-time, temporary, low-paying, and contract jobs; most of them without any health benefits. ...read more

by Harriet Winningham

Pink is not my favorite color. Especially if it is coming in the form of a "pink Slip". The dreaded "Sorry, but your position is found no longer to be necessary and we will be down sizing." Or the, "With the year end budge...read more

by Sean Davis

With facing the loss of a job due to termination over something you have done or if it is from layoffs you experience a great deal of frustration over the fact that you are being forcibly uprooted from a job that you may e...read more

by Linda Ann Nickerson

FIRE ME: DO ME A FAVOR Right after graduate school, I accepted a job offer with a Fortune 500 company. I clicked my conservative pumps together three times and marched into the chrome and glass corporate headquarters. S...read more

by John Huetteman

Once upon a time I was really happy at my job, a civil service position for the state government. I was doing extremely well and was finally content. I had reached a level of comfort with myself, my career, my social act...read more

by Paracletos

Faced With Unemployment As I faced unemployment, I was faced with a multitude of emotions that took me on a journey that led from denial, disgust, disappointment, despair,and depression, to a discovery of the grace and me...read more