Lemonade

Feature Film | 35:57

After a 37 year-old copywriter is laid off from a large ad-agency in 2008, he starts a blog for other unemployed ad professionals. Once the site launched, he decided to create a promotional video featuring the faces and stories of other laid-off execs.

SWUF: The Trickle Down Effect.

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…

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