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How to Talk So Unemployed People Will Listen and Listen so Unemployed People Will Talk

I remember when I first began to understand the way my parents raised my brother, sister and I. It was a moment of triumph, glory and glee. See, I did AmeriCorp right after college. Part of the program I was involved in required us to read a book on working with children. It was brilliant, [...]

Watching from the sidelines

When you see yourself in your friends.

When your friends join you in the recently laid off line

I still consider myself recently laid off although I’m encroaching on week seven. With job applications, screening calls and interviews the time has gone by too fast. I look back and still I am frustrated with my lack of progress. Why am I not speaking fluent French or have mastered PHP yet? This is still [...]

Stuck in the wardrobe

The C.S. Lewis approved unemployment wardrobe.

The unanswerable question: how are you doing?

It’s day three and how am I doing?