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Surviving Unemployment: Write your way to happiness.
Remember the first days of the school year with your new notebooks and new pens? You couldn’t wait to start writing with them. And when bored, you doodled with those pens on the notebooks with curlicues, lines, arrows, hearts or anything that came to mind. Now is somewhat different. Instead of doodling we use the […]
Surviving Unemployment: Time on your hands.
Think of all the things you wanted to do when you had time. Well the good news is you now have the time. The bad news is it’s called unemployment. There are so many projects we put off because they aren’t the most fun, yet, deep down inside we know they have to get done. […]
Surviving Unemployment: Free is the key.
Free is the key or what your public library can offer you. Free events keep you sane and your budget on track. After you found out you were laid off, one of the first things you did was look at your budget with a hatchet. Anything not vitally necessary was the first to go. Next, […]
Surviving Unemployment: Take care of you.
How frustrating it is when you want a cold glass of milk, but someone before you took it all. The carton is empty. When it’s gone, it’s gone. Nil, zip, zero. No matter how much you want it, there is nothing there. You can squeeze and squeeze, but you won’t get anything. The same is […]
Surviving Unemployment: Be a people person.
Last week I introduced my upcoming series of blogs about coping with your job loss. This week I will tell you how being a people person will help you endure the wait until you land your next job. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, therefore I cannot give you […]
