Reader’s Mail: Unemployed with 2 degrees and 4 certs
Hi Gilbert!
I came across your site whilst surfing the web for a support site for the unemployed.
Briefly about myself … I am 36, Malaysian Chinese, female and resigned in April 2009 from my MYR150k / annum job. Reason being that I needed a break and the work culture of the organisation was doing me no good. I am still looking for a job (albeit a good job, altho in times like this it is hard to even say that). During the course of my unemployment I have done 4 papers and gotten 4 certs, worked at MalaysiaKini briefly for about 3 months (but felt I didn’ have the knack for journalism) and am currently working at a marketing job (that’s paying 1/2 of what I used to get). At the same time, I am sending out my CV to scores of companies (both within KL and Singapore) for jobs within my area of specialism.
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Call it the “divorce assumption.” Most people assume that a person stuck in a bad marriage has two choices: stay married and miserable or get a divorce and become happier.1 But now come the findings from the first scholarly study ever to test that assumption, and these findings challenge conventional wisdom. Conducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.
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