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

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

I am sure most of you will be surprised to learn that I have been involuntarily jobless now and again. And it will further astound you to find that some of my supervisors at various jobs have voted me "Not Useful". I know, it is shocking, those of you that know me probaly can't imagine my losing a job, as prim and proper as I am, but my employment history was pretty much a roundabout of hiring and firing for most of my life. My first firing was really bogus. My parents thought it would do me good to work at Cedar Point Amazement park for a summer. Now the word is out that the majority of Cedar Point employees are gay, it is the Mecca of gayity. ...  Read the complete review