It’s tough losing your job at any time, but as you get older and your skills maybe are older it gets harder to get another job, harder to retrain, and like so many others you could be in a position where the cost of being unemployed could affect the future of your family, not just yourself.
Tony
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It’s now thirteen days since I lost my job and I have been incredibly busy ever since, trying to organise my life and to promote my work more online. Since my health insurance runs out in less than a week I have been trying to get the essentials sorted out […]
My cry for help since I lost my job 11 days ago has gone out far and wide, and it’s so sad to hear of so many good people who have also lost their jobs. Not only am I hearing from people that I have networked with over the last […]
Well it’s one week today since I lost my job, and I have been really busy during this time, trying to get so many things sorted out, but not making even half the progress that I would have liked to. I have a number of priorities for tasks, but so […]
I thought that this job I have had for the last two years would see me safe, at least for a while, since the company is keen to hire people that are looking for a long term position, and it likes to hire experienced people rather than trainees. Well it […]
I was just about to leave work tonight when my ex-wife calls to ask if I want to take my youngest daughter (4 1/2) to her soccer game, seeing as my eldest (8 1/2) had a fever and she wanted to look after her. So I drove straight from work, […]
Peronally, I think 2009 is going to be a tough year for many people – too many people, and definitely having a secure job is a new status symbol. But defining safe? I don’t think you can.
Sad as it was to leave the freezing cold temperatures of England on Sunday and to head back to the warmth of South Florida, it was at the same time a sad departure from Debbie, since without her visa being approved, it might be July before we get to see […]