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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 [...]

One month unemployment anniversary

Looking back on my first month of unemployment and the lessons I’ve learned.

Vacation all I ever wanted

Heading to sunny LA for the long weekend.

Socialite day: gym passes and yoga classes

Finding a balance between the work-me and the social-me.

Dealing with rejection

Getting rejected — the art of moving on.

Tactic one: role playing “I have a job”

Using make believe techniques to get me through the work week.

Lessons from Natty: staying positive in times of adversity

I may not have Jed the wolf to get to Washington State but I do have loan deferment.

The long months ahead

Current estimates put finding a new job at six months.

Fact: unemployment is an airborne disease

CDC to announce unemployment as the newest airborne disease.

New perspective on weekends

Weekends for the laid off are just more time to think about being unemployed.