When Kenneth F. Wassell discovered his days on the job were numbered, he immediately began searching for alternatives. But like so many others, he searched for months without landing a single interview. As time went on, the pressure mounted to pay the bills - especially after friends began looking at him as a charity case. He managed to get through the rough period, and he wrote this book to help others struggling with unemployment. Learn how to: - overcome the depression that often comes with losing a job; - manage finances while unemployed; - write cover letters and resumes that get noticed; - network with friends and colleagues to find opportunities. By applying the strategies that worked for the author, you'll find that unemployment is a season with a beginning and an end - and you can get through it as long as you don't give up on finding your next job. Get advice from someone who has been through the trials and tribulations of being unemployed, and find out how to keep your life intact until you find a new position in Surviving Unemployment.

This book is an inspirational bio with words of encouragement. It shares how troubling events in my life led me to God for answers and direction.

This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and shaping the person’s self-conception, identity, and well-being. Based on more than 120 in-depth interviews with young long-term unemployed in six European countries, this book puts social support and the young jobless’ webs of social relations at center stage. It expands knowledge by raising awareness of the multidimensionality and complexity of the social conditions of young jobless, drawing, on the one hand, a more differentiated picture of unemployment, vulnerability and social exclusion amongst young people and, on the other hand, taking a close look at the social reality of young adults’ unemployment in different European cities.

Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on different dimensions of young people’s lives. When compared to employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second, however, there are important variations across the four cities. This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so even when they have important grievances to express in the face of high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology, and social psychology.

Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants. They paint a portrait of how the social context in which these workers lived played a critical role in their experiences of unemployment or of keeping their jobs when others around them lost theirs. More than simply a study of unemployment and mental health, this book is also a story of coping and resilience.

Considers legislation to extend educational and vocational training assistance and loan benefits to post-Korean War veterans, and to provide vocational rehabilitation to veterans who incurred disability before or after the Korean War.