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Good news — We have compiled all of our #MusicMonday posts in one place for your listening pleasure. It’s a known fact, music inspires and at a time like this we’re all in need of a little inspiration. Just jump over to http://www.405clubmusic.tumblr.com or click on the itunes icon up in our header.
Once you’re there you have the option of playing each song one at a time or if you’d like to stream them as a continuous mix just click the “Click to play all” link on the streampad.
Enjoy!
Unemployment: New Claims Down Slightly -
We see some slight improvement in the weekly unemployment indicator. I would have liked to have seen a bigger move, as we have entered a period with no obvious short term trend. This week’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report has been released. New claims dropped to 462,000. Last week’s…
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Ed. Note) We are excited to introduce Lesley Pink, an editor and writer who has worked in marketing, financial journalism, and immigration law. She wishes she could swim for a living, but for now you can find her here in her new “Single White Unemployed Female” column. Enjoy.
My bank account isn’t the only thing taking a hit during my first experience with unemployment. My self-esteem is suffering, too.
Of course, I didn’t get all my self-worth from my job, but I did get something out of it. I had a sense of accomplishment, an office, an assistant, and yes, that paycheck. I was being paid for my work and, along with that, my experience and education.
And then that was taken away and my editing background was deemed insignificant, my Masters degree considered [even more] worthless. Since my experience and education didn’t seem to count for anything and since I could be so easily discarded, didn’t that make me, by extension, worthless and expendable?
I have been struggling with these feelings for a couple months now…
Time for some truth. I believe that most nightmares are caused by events that occurred during our waking hours. Situations such as job loss and long term unemployment create mental wounds, and for many of us, those wounds are manifested in nightmares. Sometimes nightmares are a collage of unresolved items that happened during our waking hours. After I wrote Part 3 of Nightmare….Again, I thought about what event could have caused that type of nightmare.
I did not have to think very hard. In 2007, I went on a business trip to Minneapolis. At that time the company I was working for was in danger of losing a major account. The purpose of that trip was to prevent the loss of that account. Shortly before our visit, there was a major disaster in that city. The Interstate 35W Bridge had collapsed, resulting in several deaths. As fate would have it, the hotel we booked was about six blocks away from that bridge, and the room I occupied had a birds eye view of the damaged bridge. The trip ended up a disaster: we lost the account, and perhaps it planted the seeds that eventually caused the downsizing of the company and my subsequent unemployment. Continue reading for Part III…