‘Surviving unemployment’ Archives
How To Maintain Family Harmony During Unemployment
This post first appeared here on 26 June, 2009 How To Maintain Family Harmony During Unemployment Written by: Gilbert Goh Unemployment is known to have hit the whole household hard and some families have disintegrated when the [...]
Depression Tied to Higher Risk for Early Death in Young Adults (Medscape)
August 17, 2012 — Depression in young adulthood can have lingering effects, including an increased risk for premature death due to cardiovascular disease and injury, a new study shows. Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School [...]
10 reasons you should never get a job
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ July 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina Email this article to a friend Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer [...]
Eight Tips For Living While Unemployed
This article was first published here on Aug 2009. Eight Tips for Living While Unemployed A few days ago, I found myself jobless. It’s too complicated to explain the whole situation, but suffice to say, it left me feeling anxious and sad. [...]
Changing jobs in mid-life is hard but do-able
I WAS encouraged after reading last Saturday's series of articles ('Left turn at 50'). It showed that many people can make life-changing decisions during the twilight years of their careers. I went into social work when I was 45 years old, as I [...]
25 Lessons I’ve Learned In 50 Years
For anyone under 50 reading this, I have some good news for you. 50 is pretty darned good! I even surprise myself by writing this, because believe me, I never thought the day would come when I would embrace being half a century. But it has [...]
7 Major Traumas of Unemployment
This article first appeared here in July 2009 7 Major Traumas of Unemployment Written by: Gilbert Goh Many readers have asked me what to expect when they were given the pink slip. Trying my best to be optimistic, I told them to stay [...]
How to Take Intelligent Career Risk (and Win Mentoring from Reid Hoffman, Chairman of LinkedIn)
The following post is co-authored by Ben Casnocha and Reid Hoffman. In the conclusion, there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be mentored by both of them. Ben Casnocha is an award-winning author and serial company-builder, whom BusinessWeek [...]
Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ The following article is a guest post by Chris Guillibeau, who’s traveled to 150+ countries and studied more micro-businesses than anyone I know. I hope you love this piece as much as I did. Enjoy! Enter [...]
Resiliency Skills for Handling Emotional Side of Job Loss and Job Search (Resiliency Center)
by Al Siebert, Ph.D., author of The Resiliency Advantage Losing your job through no fault of your own can wipe you out emotionally. How do you deal with your loss of esteem? With anger? How do you sustain your energy for searching for work? You [...]
12 Ways To Increase Self Esteem
Step One Stop comparing yourself with other people. There will always be some people who have more than you and some who have less. If you play the comparison game, you'll run into too many "opponents" you can't defeat. Step [...]
Upgrading Out of Unemployment – Is It Possible?
Upgrading Out of Unemployment - is it possible? This article first appeared here in 2009 July Written By: Gilbert Goh I am guilty of not being ambitious enough in my life as my last educational certificate is at least 20 years ago. [...]
10 Signs It’s Time To Quit Your Job
Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:58 PM PDT Written by Wise Bread Chances are if you are lucky enough to have a job, the thought of quitting sounds ridiculous. With the unemployment rate at an all time high, most people are thanking their lucky stars [...]
12 Truths to Tell Yourself After a Mistake or Failure
Have you ever seen a child learn to ride a bike, or a toddler learn to walk? They stumble and fall numerous times before getting it right. Mistakes are learning opportunities. It takes failure after failure to create success. Believe you can [...]
Lessons I learned during my unemployment
First of all, thanks for allowing us to interview you online Joshua and can you provide us with some background information on yourself? I am a degree holder and I worked in HR for around 6 years prior to 2008. Currently, I’m working in the [...]
