Testimonies: Faced with unemployment 13 Articles

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 R Shimoda

Having had the unpleasant experience of being unemployed, I would say facing it is much easier. For those who have been fortunate enough to avoid this experience, take it from me, you are very lucky. For those like mysel...read more

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 Dolores Moore

For many years, I worked as a government unemployment adviser. My role was to help people find jobs, or suitable training to get them back to work, and to sort out their claims for unemployment benefits. I was faced with...read more

by Mark Butler

The prospect of unemployment has only come up for me twice in my life and I was fortunate in that I didn't really have to face actual unemployment the first time. That was the time when I retired from the Navy and I was l...read more

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by N. M. Cleveland

June 16, 2008, marked the start of my second go around with unemployment within the last three years. During each period of unemployment, I've found myself reflecting on the reasons the employer stated that I was terminate...read more

by Karen Loos

I am working on getting a part time job. Working in the proverbial field of mortgages just didn't pan out. Either I came across people that wanted a loan, and couldn't get one because of a down payment was what they lacked...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