Positive Aspects of Unemployment
Being unemployed does not have to be the tragedy it is thought to be, not if the interim between jobs is managed well. If it is looked upon as what it is, the loss of one job and the search for another , in many instances, it can lead to a better work experience ahead. However it looked upon, it is a chance to learn whatever lesson it teaches, frugality, how to live more realistically, what is important in life, how not to take anything for granted.This period is not devoid of money, unemployment kicks in to help tide the non wage earner over for a brief period while a new job is sought, and this gives a job seeker time to look for that better job, while accessing every available avenue. Another upside to being unemployed is time to work on attitudes, work ethics, and time to get to know the other side of the picture.Questions can be answered about why the company left go of many of their employees, what could have been done about it, and ways it could have been prevented. Not that these are part of the job search exactly, but analyzing the overall probabilities will go far in the next work experience. It will be especially helpful if part of the problem of being laid off was in the lack of employee commitment. That notion will fit under the lessons to be learned from unemployment.One positive web site,Mainstreet, deals with this topic quite well. Beth Fiegerman, in her Upside to Unemployment: 15 Stories, says that now there is no stigma to being unemployed. That is so because there is so much of it, and to struggle over losing a job does not now carry shame and degradation as it once did. To help out and to give hope, she collected stories of those who gave her insights into how being unemployed can be clouds with have silver linings.Other web sites, while less optimistic, do not preach doom. They advise using the time out of work to positively and put toward a new hopeful life experience. One unemployed person, as told toCNN, writes about the first feelings of being out of work. He paints a dismal picture at first, unshaven for three days, meeting his previous boss in this state, how he never gets listened to when trying to find work, and then a more positive attitude sets in. He lists them. After all these hopeful and truthful up looks, he end by saying "What does not kill me makes me stronger."After researching and reading of the problems of being out of work of so many, there can be only one conclusion. When the economy does get on an even keel once more, and more people are working than are out of work, the lessons learned will have made everyone stronger for the experience. No longer will life be taken as if there is no end to the good times. Reality checks will need be taken periodically to ensure complacency in employment never gains a foothold again.
