Finding a job can be a rough gig , especially when you're just starting out. The amount of viable jobs available is not as high as you'd like it to be, and every posting gets thousands and thousands of applicants. So some of us end up being unemployed for longer than we'd like. And in times like that, we might feel like our only option is turning to our friends for help. But doing this is never as simple as it seems. Taking money from people you know always comes with strings attached , and the…

She's robbing him blind

Being unemployed is no walk in the park . It can do a number on your mental well-being and self esteem, not to mention your finances. When you can't find a job, you can feel like you have no purpose in life, that nobody wants you and you have nothing to offer. This, of course, isn't true, it's just straight up hard to find a job these days, but it plays emotional games with your head. And some people can find themselves in that rut for years, especially if their living situation is taken care o…

The update we all expected

That's more than rent

Heaven knows I'm miserable now

Maybe be a little more intentional

One woman made an enemy of her kid after she decided to liquidate her college fund in favor of her other daughter's finances. Let's call the children Anna and Maxine. Anna, a 24-year-old woman, gave birth to her 4th child, despite not actually being able to afford the first 4. It was well within her abilities to abstain from having a 4th kid, but she chose to have 1 anyway. See, Anna was unemployed due to health issues, and her husband worked at Walmart. As you can see, it's a winning combinati…

Do they do anything at all?

It's tough out there

Rejection letters only make you stronger!

Surely they can afford two smoke breaks

I do not envy anyone who has to fire others. Letting somebody down easy is a skill I simply don't have. Every time I've broken up with someone, I have done it clunkily and a bit insensitively, which is really not ideal for delivering bad news . You need to tell the other person what's happening directly, but not too directly. You need to be empathetic first and informative second. You need to make sure they cry after you fire them instead of when they're in the room with you. It's a tricky bala…

There's nothing worse than getting laid off . Just kidding, there is something objectively worse than that: finding out you're getting laid off from an outside source days before it happens. Being terminated without pay is possibly worse than getting let go, but getting let go always feels somewhat slimy, especially when your department is seemingly cut for no reason. Getting laid off is like saying, “we'll give you a little unemployment as a treat.” It's seemingly innocuous, but it's just anot…

Oh, to be jobless