Book News Archives | Welcome to Unemploymentville https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/category/escape-from-unemploymentville-book-news/ Useful Ideas for Unemployed or Unemployed Folks - Unemployment can be a beast. Don't go it alone. Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:19:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Are You Suffering From Out-Of-Work-Life-Sucks-Itis?? https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/are-you-suffering-from-out-of-work-life-sucks-itis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-suffering-from-out-of-work-life-sucks-itis https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/are-you-suffering-from-out-of-work-life-sucks-itis/#respond Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:25:02 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2211 Hey, super short post before I head out to work, but we are live over on Indiegogo.   Check out the video, on Out-Of-Work-Life-Sucks-Itis and the great perks we’ve got on discount!!

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/are-you-suffering-from-out-of-work-life-sucks-itis/feed/ 0 Treading Water https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/treading-water/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=treading-water https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/treading-water/#respond Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:52:42 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2222 Boston, 2006: I step down from a full-time editing job seconds before I’m sure to get a pink slip. I convince myself I’m ready to create my own work. And I do. I edit. I teach. I write. I even babysit. Ten years fly by in a blur – during which I accumulate exactly two things: telling experiences and untold debt. I try LA, then Boston, and then LA again. All complete busts. The unsteady diet of tutoring and teaching...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/treading-water/feed/ 0 5 Options If You’ve Been Looking for a Job and Can’t Find One https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/5-options-if-youve-been-looking-for-a-job-and-cant-find-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-options-if-youve-been-looking-for-a-job-and-cant-find-one https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/5-options-if-youve-been-looking-for-a-job-and-cant-find-one/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:46:53 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2329 1) Hire a Career Coach Not just any career coach, hire a career coach who has helped people like yourself return to earning a living in the recent past.  Look for someone with a website that talks about your particular issues, such as: no experience, over 50, physical or emotional limitations, ‘overqualified’, etc.  Ask them to tell you about some of their recent successes.  You should feel confident or at least very hopeful that this particular career coach can help...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/5-options-if-youve-been-looking-for-a-job-and-cant-find-one/feed/ 1 An Unfunny Thing Happened on the Way to Making This Audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/an-unfunny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-unfunny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/an-unfunny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/#respond Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:58:58 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2518 After Steve and I struck our bargain, I was sure creating the audiobook was going to be a lot of fun and that Steve and I, both enthusiastic and motivated, would complete it in a couple months. We decided to have me read my own portion instead of hiring someone else to ‘play me’. It would be less expensive and I would have complete control over how my own story of cancelled job offers sounded. Steve emailed me information on...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/an-unfunny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/feed/ 0 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Making This Audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:10:24 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2511 I received the following request to guest post on May 18, 2019 Hi There, I’m a single dad, 48 years old, and I’ve worked in the TV industry in broadcast operations for the bulk of my career. For nearly a decade, it was my privilege to work for American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) in Riverside, CA. In fact, I was so lucky to have worked there that I really didn’t “feel” the economic downturn and subsequent recession of...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-this-audiobook/feed/ 3 A Good Thing Happened on the Way to Making the Audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-good-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-the-audiobook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-good-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-the-audiobook https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-good-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-the-audiobook/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:22:28 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2536 When we finally had all the microphone quirks worked out, I began AGAIN recording the audio for Out-of-Work to Making Money.  The repeated readings had improved my performance substantially.  Some chapters were better than others.  I think the Joan Rivers one may be my best.  Not sure why, I just got more caught up in the story. There were some benefits to my reading and rereading and rereading the book.  I realized that the questions in the Q & A...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/a-good-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-making-the-audiobook/feed/ 0 What happened to Anne, Unemploymentville.com and the book? https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/what-happened-to-anne-unemploymentville-com-and-the-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-anne-unemploymentville-com-and-the-book https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/what-happened-to-anne-unemploymentville-com-and-the-book/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:41:23 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2253 Hi, As you may have noticed I haven’t been working on Unemploymentville.com or Escape from Unemploymentville for many weeks. Here is why: My father had a stroke on January 19th and passed away on January 30th. He was 89 years old and had a long, full life. Tragically, six days after he passed away, my 27-year-old niece was in a car accident. After five days in intensive care, this wonderful, bright life was also taken from our family, passing away...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/what-happened-to-anne-unemploymentville-com-and-the-book/feed/ 1 On Why I Wrote This Book – Escape from Unemploymentville – Cover https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/escape-from-unemploymentville-cover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=escape-from-unemploymentville-cover https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/escape-from-unemploymentville-cover/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:40:37 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2178 On Why I Wrote this Book I recently had a horrible, awful stay in Unemploymentville and I wanted to make the place a bit better for the next person passing thru. Unemploymentville can be incredibly lonely despite millions of people living there. By sharing our experiences we receive the comfort of thinking, “Oh, you too? I’m not the only one.” An outsider with no extended stays in Unemploymentville might ask, “How could you possibly feel alone in any aspect of...

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