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are you worried about losing your job?
Published Nov. 21, 2008Views: 170
Hello GOLO:
I am becoming increasingly disheartened by the sheer number of people losing their jobs. Every blog I see about it posted here breaks my heart and the news continues. I just learned of more massive layoffs at my old employer, and given that I'm from Detroit, I know many many people who have been affected by the auto industry woes.
So what practical advice can we offer people who are finding themselves back in the job market? If you're in that position, what steps are you taking to find employment?
What if you haven't been in the job market for 20 years? Then what?
Are you worried about losing your job?
Let's use this space to talk about everything from starting your own business to networking to the importance of saving for a rainy day.
We're bound to offer up something helpful to others.
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March 11, 2009 1:48 p.m.
March 7, 2009 10:37 p.m.
GOLO member since July 3, 2007
March 7, 2009 9:45 p.m.
GOLO member since August 15, 2007
March 7, 2009 8:42 p.m.
It is difficult to go from the security of a steady paycheck, health benefits, and hope for the future to fear, worry, anxiety, no money, debts to be paid, and medicines to buy.
Like many, I have reverted to selling things that my prior successes had allowed me just to keep the hounds at bay and the lights turned on.
We still have darker days ahead IMO, and the lives of thousands are and will change dramatically. I for one see this as a turning point, a pivotal moment for us all.
I am liquidating many many things, and with each sale I feel a weight of worry lifted off my shoulders. I am taking my grandmothers advice for the first time regarding her views towards money.
She was a survivor of the first great depression and she taught me many things about doing without. I wish I would have heeded her advice many many years ago.
"This too shall pass"...when is the biggest question
March 7, 2009 1:58 a.m.
GOLO member since February 10, 2009
February 21, 2009 8:56 p.m.
February 14, 2009 4:58 p.m.
He was the problem to this economy.
February 11, 2009 11:24 a.m.
February 9, 2009 4:00 p.m.
I lost my job 3 weeks ago, my dad lost his job this week, my girlfriend has been unemployed since november. my parents are selling the house in order to survive and eating small meals, I'm stocked up on oodles of noodles and now late on all my bills. This is a serious depression that is continually trickeling down and getting people who thought they would never be affected.
Thank you George Bush and all your "smart" supporters!
January 13, 2009 9:18 a.m.
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