Personal Experiences of Unemployment

Today is not a good day, I came home to hear that my partner who has been out of work since mid January of this year will soon have his unemployment benefits stopped. He doesn't receive a huge amount as it is but losing this vital income every fortnight is a potential disaster and has me worried about the future. We don't live an extravagant lifestyle by anyone's standards, we eat well and have a comfortable home and like to have days out at weekends occassionally, other than that we don't splurge our hard earned cash or take risks. Now however with only my income to survive on even the smallest little treats and pleasures may have to go, thank god we don't ...  Read the complete review

It is so easy to become so disillusioned with so much when you're unemployed. I've been unemployed for about 9 months now, having finished my Masters last year. CONTEXT OF WRITING: I know most people after finishing a period of study (I went on to do my Masters straight after my Bachelors - so was 7 years studying whilst juggling various part time jobs, of which I had to quit in May last year so I could complete my thesis research overseas), would be relishing the time out, kicking back, doing the liver some serious injustice at the pub and generally enjoying the freedom of not having to study as soon as you get home. My experience ...  Read the complete review

Unemployment is something that everyone dreads but unfortunately it has happened to most of us at some point in life, sometimes through our own fault and other times through the faults of others. So having graduated last year I knew that getting a job was not going to be particularly easy. I had not secured a grad job, but I figured that there was still jobs out there would be interested in an ambitious graduate like myself. I soon came to the harsh reality of life and the current situation started to sink in that there are no jobs available. I had emailed maybe a hundred different firms, mainly accountant ones due to being an ACCA student, and also signed up ...  Read the complete review

The situation of not having a job seems very bad to be honest. Finding your self a job at the moment is just one of the biggest problems. The only way to counter against this is by trying to do something about it. Just knowing that you have no job makes you feel down and upset. These are my ways of trying to find my self a job and get over the bad feeling which is being unemployed. Some people may think benefits are out there to help but they really are nothing and you need a job. As I was unemployed the main thing I did was wake up early in the morning. By waking up early in the morning and applying for jobs online you have a good chance. The reason is ...  Read the complete review

Having been in temporary work for the last few months I am now unemployed again for the third time in the last year. At first I went into my usual panic about having no money and my parents thinking I'm a 'loser' (which they don't!) before realising I can turn this 'crisis' into an 'opportunity' to improve myself, my future job prospects and actually enjoy myself! Here are some tips for those of you unlucky enough to be unemployed during this so-called "recession": 1) Get out of bed at a reasonable hour, the same time each day. Sure, you don't need to get out of bed at the crack of dawn if you don't want to, but getting up at a good hour (for me it's ...  Read the complete review