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The Unemployed Guy's Guide to Unemployment
The problem with most 'experts' on Unemployment is: they've never been out of work! The Unemployed Guy's Guide to Unemployment is a fresh, forthright, and often funny analysis of the emotional, practical, and financial aspects of joblessness. I've has been there, and I'm sharing all the tips and tricks I've learned to stay sane, feed your family, and snare that next job.
This book is not scientific. It's not based on hard data and intensive studies. I'm not a trained and certified job coach or employment counselor. It's not approved by the Chamber of Commerce, your State Employment Office or anyone's corporate Human Relations office. These are simply the options, tricks, and traps I've learned through often-painful experience. (In other words, follow my advice at your own risk.)
This is not advice for the hard-core poor trying to survive on food stamps and minimum wage jobs. You don't need my smart-ass comments and you really shouldn't waste your money on them.
It's for you - the middle-class worker who thought this would never happen; who believed you were invulnerable, destined for a great career, and that unemployment was something that only happened to other people.
It's for people who see the American Dream moving inexorably out of reach.
This is real-world advice based on having lived through the sledgehammer blow of being fired, the terror that wakes you up in the middle of the night, the desperation when you hit the ATM and your account is empty, the day when you don't even have enough cash to get your car out of the parking lot. It's also the tricks I've learned to keep afloat, to buy the baby diapers when I didn't have a single dime, to pay doctors and hospitals and lawyers and insurance and mortgages, to slide through with my skin intact, most of my family at least still speaking to me, and even have a laugh or two.
It's a compendium of what I really bought with the money I wasted on that online job-site upgrade, paying for a 'professionally-written' résumé, and hiring that 'job coach.' Not to mention all the times that I've worked weeks on a project that everyone 'simply knew' would bring in a million dollars - except that it didn't. With any luck, you can learn from my mistakes - and I think I've made all of them.
This book is not scientific. It's not based on hard data and intensive studies. I'm not a trained and certified job coach or employment counselor. It's not approved by the Chamber of Commerce, your State Employment Office or anyone's corporate Human Relations office. These are simply the options, tricks, and traps I've learned through often-painful experience. (In other words, follow my advice at your own risk.)
This is not advice for the hard-core poor trying to survive on food stamps and minimum wage jobs. You don't need my smart-ass comments and you really shouldn't waste your money on them.
It's for you - the middle-class worker who thought this would never happen; who believed you were invulnerable, destined for a great career, and that unemployment was something that only happened to other people.
It's for people who see the American Dream moving inexorably out of reach.
This is real-world advice based on having lived through the sledgehammer blow of being fired, the terror that wakes you up in the middle of the night, the desperation when you hit the ATM and your account is empty, the day when you don't even have enough cash to get your car out of the parking lot. It's also the tricks I've learned to keep afloat, to buy the baby diapers when I didn't have a single dime, to pay doctors and hospitals and lawyers and insurance and mortgages, to slide through with my skin intact, most of my family at least still speaking to me, and even have a laugh or two.
It's a compendium of what I really bought with the money I wasted on that online job-site upgrade, paying for a 'professionally-written' résumé, and hiring that 'job coach.' Not to mention all the times that I've worked weeks on a project that everyone 'simply knew' would bring in a million dollars - except that it didn't. With any luck, you can learn from my mistakes - and I think I've made all of them.
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Terry Irving
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I moved to Washington DC in 1973 to kick around for a few weeks until I decided on a real career. I ended up riding a classic BMW R50/2 for ABC News during Watergate. Carrying that news film was the beginning of a 40-year career that has included producing Emmy Award-winning television news, writing everything from magazine articles to standup comedy and developing many of the earliest forms of online media.
After producing stories in Beirut, Hong Kong, El Salvador, and all 50 states, I still live right outside Washington, DC because my wife and my dog simply refuse to live anywhere else.
I have just finished a memoir of those early years and am in search of an agent.
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I moved to Washington DC in 1973 to kick around for a few weeks until I decided on a real career. I ended up riding a classic BMW R50/2 for ABC News during Watergate. Carrying that news film was the beginning of a 40-year career that has included producing Emmy Award-winning television news, writing everything from magazine articles to standup comedy and developing many of the earliest forms of online media.
After producing stories in Beirut, Hong Kong, El Salvador, and all 50 states, I still live right outside Washington, DC because my wife and my dog simply refuse to live anywhere else.
I have just finished a memoir of those early years and am in search of an agent.
You can visit my website:
http://www.roninrobotpress.com/
Or you can connect with me Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writingprodu...
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/terryirving)
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April 27, 2015
Wow! I decided to read this because I heard it was funny and gave interesting advice, and I was not disappointed...more than that-- I was blown away! The writing was so good and the tone so conversational and intriguing that I couldn't stop reading and finished the entire book in 3 hours.
I loved the straight-forward approach of what to expect when you're fired, the real-life stories, and the compassion and comfort the author gives you in your desperate situation. Yes he said 'suck it up,' but he also told you how to deal with the pain, not blame yourself, save money, avoid things that won't get you a job, and how to survive unemployment.
This is a book of hope for the unemployed, and the author at his best (I would read another advice book he writes in a heartbeat.)
I loved the straight-forward approach of what to expect when you're fired, the real-life stories, and the compassion and comfort the author gives you in your desperate situation. Yes he said 'suck it up,' but he also told you how to deal with the pain, not blame yourself, save money, avoid things that won't get you a job, and how to survive unemployment.
This is a book of hope for the unemployed, and the author at his best (I would read another advice book he writes in a heartbeat.)
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