mercredi 19 septembre 2012

For Mr. Unemployment, a ?nice? epiphany

Let?s get one thing straight: I never wanted to be Mr. Unemployment. It?s important to clear this up because, several months after I was laid off from my job of 18 years at a large media company, I wrote a piece for this magazine headlined ?Terminated.? Up to the point of its publication, I was adrift, getting nowhere. Most companies didn?t even respond to my inquiries about openings. I even applied for a job making up and distributing fliers, figuring at least I?d be writing. In a year, I thought, someone would pass me on the street and shout, ?Hey, what are you doing with yourself since they fired your butt?? and I would yell across traffic, ?I?m a flier writer.?

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