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Keeping Sane while Unemployed |
| Message Name: |
Unemployment is a state of mind |
| Date Posted: |
02/14/2002 |
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We are writing a book and need your help. The short synopsis is:
The Job Hunter??s Search for Sanity: What to do with the other 8 hours of the day?
This book offers funny, slice of life stories and insights to help the unemployed use their time wisely and turn their time out of work into an opportunity rather than a failure. (see more detailed overview below).
In order to write a book that as many readers as possible can relate to, we need to collect interesting, inspiring, or just plain funny stories from those who have experienced unemployment and survived! Please answer one or more of the following questions as specific as possible. In addition, please forward this message broadly to anyone who might be interested in sharing their experiences. Please respond to: search4sanity@hotmail.com
- How did/do you use your time while unemployed? Think of some interesting/funny stories/ideas that helped you keep sane/happy in between the interviews and rejection letters. Some possible categories (feel free to add new categories!):
??Something you??ve always wanted to do, but didn??t have the time
??Assistance to family, friends, and community
??Travel
??Interim job
??Etc.
- What do you regret NOT doing during your time out of work? (i.e., If I ONLY Knew I Was Going to Be Unemployed THIS Long, I Would Have??)
- How do/did you answer the dreaded question, ??So, what do you do??? while jobless?
- What do you think a book on this topic must address?
- Additional Comments?
Book overview:
All of a sudden millions of people find themselves unemployed with a tight job market staring them in the face. Only a couple of years removed from the dot-com hysteria, this situation is new territory for many Generation Xers who thought nothing of jumping from job to job, opportunity to opportunity and big salaries to bigger salaries. Now they face the prospect of a long, ego-busting period with no job, limited money and time to think about it. Yet, anyone who has been out of work for any period of time understands one thing: not having a job is depressing at best, self-defeating at worst. The unemployed desperately need a resource to help them take back their sanity??
In a fun loving and never-take-ourselves-too- seriously approach, this book offers ideas and advice on how to take back your life from cover letter hell. Everyone feels defeated during the job search. Everyone overanalyzes their failures (resumes lost in cyberspace) infinitely more than their successes. Yet at the same time this is the worst kind of thinking for a job searcher.
There are countless books available to help the unemployed become employed again. Books about resumes, cover letters interviewing skills, and networking abound. To fight the inevitable depression that job loss brings, equally depressing psychology books guide us through the emotional turmoil. This book is different ?? it has nothing, but everything to do with job searching. It describes what to do when unemployed to keep sane, using stories and vignettes from people who faced their situation and made the best of it. This book hopes to help the unemployed make the most of their time and give them something to laugh about. It is about how to be happy during one of the most depressing times in your life. In between the interviews and overhauling your resume, the jobless have an incredible gift they may never again experience - time. This book will help them use this gift wisely, based on real-life examples and stories. At the very least, the reader will learn about ideas and a framework to keep sane and accomplish something during their time out of work. At best, it may lead them on a new career or passion ?? it could change their life. Either way, humorous stories about other people in similar situations will allow the unemployed to laugh at themselves and realize that they are not alone.
Please mail all responses or questions to search4sanity@hotmail.com.
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| Message: |
Unemployment is a state of mind--a negative state of mind created by a useless middle class value structure.
There are plenty of upper class people who don't work, and they don't consider themselves to be "unemployed".
You should go ask them what they do with all their time.
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