Unemployment | Unexpected Leisure

May 20, 2013September 4, 2018

Is Starting a Small Business a Cure for Unemployment?

Not everyone is an entrepreneur. This should be obvious. If you've been unemployed for a long time, chances are you have a growing distrust of the market's ability to reward hard work and initiative. This is also known as "perspective." Read more [...]

March 23, 2013May 6, 2013

Laid Off: Four Years and Counting

I really didn't expect a layoff. The University President and the CFO broke the news me just before the weekly executive meeting I normally attended. I told them I wouldn't be at that meeting; "I have work to do." I immediately went back to my office and started looking for my next job. Read more [...]

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013

A Reassessment

Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is a well-known sign of insanity. It will also drive a sane person to madness. I must conserve what sanity I have left. Read more [...]

December 16, 2011

What the State of Our Health Care System Means to the Unemployed

When you lose your job, you have to replace lost resources by improvising. Many options exist for essentials such as food and shelter. Health care is different. In many situations, no amount of cleverness or commitment to self-sufficiency will see you through. Read more [...]

September 27, 2011

Can you Make It on 8 Bucks An Hour?

Next time one of your smarmy friends or family members tells you how lazy the poor have it, how they get by with doing nothing and don't need to get any help from government, challenge them to walk that talk--digitally. Read more [...]

August 22, 2011August 22, 2011

Refugees of Unemployment

He said that the edge that came off most of the candidates was unsettling to him and no matter how confident or outgoing or friendly an interviewee was many of them displayed the same subtle body language and speech ticks he had come to recognize in refugees fifteen years ago. Read more [...]