The Survivor's Guide to Unemployment

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UNEMPLOYED.

• • •
"we're letting you go."
"The company is downsizing."
"you're fired." .
With a few short phrases, your world can come crashing in. Even more so when you discover that the next job you're sure you'll find just isn't materializing.
Being unemployed can put you on a roller coaster of emotions, relational difficulties, and financial crises. Questions of identity and self-esteem burrow into your mind. The stress of not knowing how you're going to pay next month's bills-or even make it through this month-can compound a growing sense of despair.
In THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO UNEMPLOYMENT, Tom Morton shares his own struggles with joblessness, as well as practical steps to make it through successfully. He covers such issues as how to:
• Survive the initial crisis • Constructively use your •Maintain personal dignity newest asset: time
•Deal with friends and family «Avoid destructive personal •Assess and manage your temptations and employ-
finances so you don't go... Tovább

Fülszöveg

UNEMPLOYED.

• • •
"we're letting you go."
"The company is downsizing."
"you're fired." .
With a few short phrases, your world can come crashing in. Even more so when you discover that the next job you're sure you'll find just isn't materializing.
Being unemployed can put you on a roller coaster of emotions, relational difficulties, and financial crises. Questions of identity and self-esteem burrow into your mind. The stress of not knowing how you're going to pay next month's bills-or even make it through this month-can compound a growing sense of despair.
In THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO UNEMPLOYMENT, Tom Morton shares his own struggles with joblessness, as well as practical steps to make it through successfully. He covers such issues as how to:
• Survive the initial crisis • Constructively use your •Maintain personal dignity newest asset: time
•Deal with friends and family «Avoid destructive personal •Assess and manage your temptations and employ-
finances so you don't go under ment scams
• File for unemployment benefits • Effectively prepare for the •Obtain other means of income job search-and the future
THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO UNEMPLOYMENT is more than a how-to book on resumes and interviewing. It is a resource that will help you cope emotionally and think clearly.
In the words of its author, "You have little control over the fact that you are unemployed. But you have a great deal of control over how you will handle it." THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO UNEMPLOYMENT will help you not only survive, but triumph.
TOM MORTON was unemployed for seventeen months before starting work at the CASPER (Wyoming) STAR-TRIBUNE. He is an award-winning reporter with ten years of experience in religious, investigative, and environmental journalism. Vissza