While this article is a helpful step-by-step and has a lot of helpful advice (it does make a difference to get references prior to leaving the firm), the last step was kinda laughable. For those of us who have been in long-term unemployment or serious financial situations, there are no emergency funds, stocks, or retirement plans to cash in on. Health insurance benefits? What jobs hand these out? Do you have to have a Ph. D., or are you 35 with some equity? I'm 23, female, white, I've been working since I was out of college, two degrees, and when I lost my job, the government denied me unemployment.
The fact of the matter is that only a small percentage of jobs, especially now, have living wages, benefits, and the kind of employment we were used to seeing our dads have, our parents have, and there isn't a plan that you can make to cover up for the financial hits of being without an income stream for any extended period of time. It's just too expensive in this country, and no one wants things to get cheaper.









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