...when unemployment freaks you out

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I don't want to seem like some kind of know-it-all. The stress and tragedy (so much of it internal) of being unemployed ties me in knots every single day. That being said, I am an old pro at this joblessness thing, having been in various states of it for the past 2.5 years and also having endured it during the recession of the early 1990s, when I was a strapping young buck fresh out of college.