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Originally Posted by EntycingFemme
heavy on my mind is my employment situation, or lack thereof.
Been a year since I was laid off... and but for the graces of an angel watching over me, and unemployment- we've been ok,
I pound the pavement, I hit the internet, I hit Job Services through the unemployment office- and there's still nothing there...
on my mind is what the hell is gonna happen when I exhaust my benefits?
Why is it that an intelligent woman, who used to be a General Manager for a 200+ room hotel and been in that profession for 20+ years,
cannot even get a job offer from even a nationally known fast food chain, a 5star hotel in Paris, or anything in between???
heavy on my mind.... yeah.
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You have to understand that it's not you. It's all over the country. I had a career, a life. I have 30 plus years in advertising, design and radio and television and I can't even get a full time job as designer
with copywriting and media experience. I free-lance and it's not enough.
I lost my career and life from a trauma. I'm on disability and I'm lucky compared to the 14 million out of work. One of my best friends is also my representative payee..an astute businesswoman who tells me this all the time. All you can do is keep trying, or maybe be more inventive on how and what you present, or in what you're looking for. I don't have the answers. But it's not you, trust me.
My life faded from 18 years of keeping trauma supressed until it nearly killed me. I'm going through facing it all over and there's no guarantee that I will ever recoup my losses, and there are many. Good luck and don't be disheartened. You're among millions...even among many executives who've lost everything. Look up the story about the exec who made a couple of hundred-thou a year and now works behind the counter at Starbucks. The country is so fucked up and the plight is reality.