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Careful What You Wish For...

Posted Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:05 by chuck

Update on the state of my marriage...

This is, bar none, the most emotionally intense and confusing period of my life. I spent the last year sorting out my issues, trying to figure out how to make enough money to pay the bills, trying to repair my marriage.

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Unemployment Is Not a Death Sentence

Posted Wed, 07/07/2010 - 17:00 by chuck

It's not even life without parole.

In fact, the only prison is the one you may have created for yourself,

which is easy to do and totally understandable.

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Depressed and Angry About the Extension

Posted Thu, 07/01/2010 - 08:08 by chuck

The failure of the unemployment extension has affected me strongly, even though I don't collect. I've been surfing around the web reading discussions on the subject, and it's just... devastating.

One guy told of losing his young wife to cancer two years ago and trying to raise his two young children himself. He's been out of work for 18 months and can't find anything. Now his benefits are running out and he and his boys will be in the streets by the end of the month. They have no food.

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Cost of NOT Passing the Unemployment Extension

Posted Sun, 06/27/2010 - 21:50 by chuck

As everyone should know, the Republicans and a couple of Democrats killed the unemployment extension and jobs bill last week. The reason behind not passing the bill was the cost -- around $25 billion.

Has anyone considered the cost of not passing this bill? I've been surfing around the 'net and have not found much on this subject so I'll take a stab at it.

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"Will I Ever Get a Job?"

Posted Wed, 06/23/2010 - 09:47 by chuck

This is a question the millions of long-term unemployed ask themselves frequently. (Sometimes they ask Google, too, oddly enough.) The answer, unfortunately, might just be, "No."

Presently, there are 5-6 applicants for every job opening. That's what "they" say, anyway. A lot of those applicants are bushy-tailed new graduates willing to work for peanuts. Experience works against you these days, and even the bushy-tailed are having a rough time.

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I'm writing a book...

Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 07:59 by chuck

... or two

A few weeks ago I started writing some stuff just for myself. It's my way of taking an emotional dump (in case you hadn't noticed).

Yesterday, I looked at it, and it was good. There's a lot of juice in them there pages, juice that could nourish others. It's not really blog material, but, I realized, it could make a great book.

So now it's being written that way. Problem is, I know nothing of the publishing business except that it is in the toilet like everything else. What good is a book if nobody reads it?

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Happy Birthday to Me

Posted Tue, 06/08/2010 - 07:47 by chuck

Today it's my birthday, and as some of you know, it is a difficult period in my life. The unemployment issue is not as daunting as it used to be thanks to a solid year of hustling my butt off, but other things have got me in a twist. Going to therapy and working on it.

It's hard to look at yourself, but it's necessary. Nobody wants to glimpse those dark corners of their psyches, but you have to do it to clear out the nasty things that, left unchecked, grow there.

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Does Unemployment Make You Lazy?

Posted Thu, 05/27/2010 - 08:03 by chuck

Seems like a stupid question but worth pondering. It's hard to imagine a diligent person made lazy by a period of unemployment, but happy people are made depressed by it, right?

Does having the luxury of taking a nap make you lazy? In my case, I would say no. Much as I love naps, I hardly ever take them, and I usually only take them when I have a ton of work to do and stay up late doing it.

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Gulf Oil Catastrophe Unemployment

Posted Mon, 05/24/2010 - 12:17 by chuck

Extent of ecological damage impossible to predict, but effect on unemployment will be big

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You Know What Sucks About Blogging?

Posted Wed, 05/12/2010 - 20:08 by chuck

[DISCLAIMER: The following will be written under the influence of intense nicotine withdrawal. The writer hereby disowns any crankiness, no matter how entertaining, and warns readers that if they are easily offended, they should leave now.]

Nobody cares.

You work so hard, and even your friends don't bother to participate. It sucks.

Plus, you get to watch all these lame blogs become popular and it makes you feel jealous, then you feel like a loser, a jealous loser.

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