A "Jobless Growth Recovery" is Just Propaganda
!There is massive discrimination toward the older experienced worker during this wretched span of deleveraging. There isn't any kind of recovery -as the papers say. They use hideous language to descr…
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How Can Our Country Be in this Situation?
I feel frustrated and stressed. I am thinking that I don't understand how come our own President offers help to other countries when he can't help his own, wasting money on other stupid things. How c…
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This is a Depression, Not a Recession
I've tried to be creative and find other career paths. I taught at UCDavis for a year but they have hired a big deal guy from NYC to replace me. I was just a lecturer, he will be an associate profess…
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Unemployment has Devastated My Family and Me
Very very stressful and devastating. I cry every day and am scared about our future. Creditors do not care......mortgage company does not care....power company does not care....THANK GOD for our fami…
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Don't Tell Me to Apply to McDonalds
Sad!!!! I read another post about how you get tired of hearing from friends and family members telling you to try McDonalds, that sums it up... Do they think we are lazy and we don't try, do they thi…
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Sick of Being Interviewed and Rejected
Being unemployed is horrible, and I'm so sick of interviewing for positions only to be rejected. I can't do anything because I can't afford it. I can't commit suicide because I have dogs and I don't …
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Facing Bankruptcy, Divorce and Homelessness
It's absolute HELL........I don't know how people survive this. I've been unemployed for 1 1/2yrs and just found out today that my unemployment has been exhausted with no available extensions. At thi…
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Just Keep Trying or Just Give up?
It is really bad. I am losing everything I have. I have used all of my savings up and I really am depressed about it all. You work to get things to help you in life and then it is being taken away fr…
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Fired for Parking in the Wrong Spot
It sucks to be unemployed. I am 50 years old and I never thought I would be unemployed at this time in my life. The most unfortunate part about this crap is I really liked my job. Funny how that happ…
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Unemployed and Ready to Hit Rock Bottom
Very depressing! Many days my tears saturate my pillows. I had an interview last week for a position as a scientist and then the recruiter called me back to say that my skills aren't needed. I begged…
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It's Rough Out There if You're Unemployed
Well for the first couple months it was nice. I received some severance in addition to unemployment benefits. I got all the bills I was behind on caught up and the rent paid and basically paid the bi…
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Stand Up Against Age Discrimination
Being unemployed since 2008 has been a nightmare filled with resumes, cover letters, very few face to face interviews and a brand new understanding of a monumental problem called "Age Discrimination"…
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My College Major Led Nowhere
It is complete and utter hell. The associated humiliation, desperation and pain that comes with being a 'pointless' member of society is hard to take. I used to be a bright, happy, confident and ambi…
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Being Unemployed Requires an Iron Will and a Tough Skin
Being unemployed requires an iron will and tough skin. The toll it takes on you mentally is enough to contemplate dropping into the abyss of depression, but you have to fight against it everyday. You…
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The War on Teachers
I have two masters degrees and I have no income; not a dime. How could this be happening to me? I have paid taxes out of my paycheck for all of these years and now that I need help, I don't qualify f…
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