How To Cope With Unemployment, Find A Job In Any Economy, And Save Money

About the Book

This book is about three things; 1. It's about the human condition and the devastating effects one experiences or may experience as a result of unemployment, and coping strategies that enable one to maintain some stability while being unemployed. 2. The book offers several different approaches to seeking and obtaining employment for public and private sector jobs. 3. The book shows people how to save money now and in the future on cell phone cost,, household expenses, and energy cost, pharmaceutical expences. The book was written by a person, who has experienced much adversity in his personal life, including being unemployed for thirteen months. This book is the result of personal experiences, seeking higher learning, attending college, job training, seeking employment, and the experiences of many others from various social and economic backgrounds experiencing unemployment and triumphantly landing a job. Controlling spending and saving money were key elements in the process. The author teaches and cares for many people, in the health care setting as a Registered Nurse.

About the Author

I have been working since I was eight years old. From the time I was eight until I was nineteen years old I had several jobs from landscaping work, newspaper routes, helping the milkman deliver milk, drug store delivery boy, janitorial work, supermarket clerk, stock boy. My mother, who had been divorced for several years, remarried. My mother, my younger brother, and myself moved from Virginia to New York where my step-father lived and worked. I finished high school in New York, the tenth to the twelfth grades. During this time my mother became pregnant and had my step-sister. My step-sister was born severely retarded and she had difficulties maintaining stable blood sugar levels and had seizure disorders. Much time and effort was needed to attend to her needs. During this time, the family moved from Queens, New York to Long Island New York. My step-father also had a couple of seizures and had to be hospitalized. When I finished high school I secured a job at a Newspaper company, Newsday, Inc. occurrence. Things quieted down and I went back to sleep. Suddenly I was awakened by two loud pops, I heard some rustling and someone running down the front steps. I jumped out of bed, ran to my living room and looked out of the picture window. I could not believe what I was seeing. My mother stumbled and fell face down on the sidewalk after she ran across the street. My step father who was in hot pursuit, caught up with her reached down, grabbed her arm, turned her over, and fired three shots into her chest. I slipped my pants on and ran across the street to see my mother bleeding to death. My step father was not there. While I looked at my mother in total disbelief, I heard two more shots in the distance. My step father had walked about a half a block away and shot himself to death. They both died of multiple gunshot wounds to the heart. Sometime later I found out that my step father had been diagnosed as a Psychopath and had been treated for Psychopathic Behavior. After this occurrence my brother, who had recently returned home from Viet Nam was discharged from the Marine Corps, and his family, came to New York to live with me. I took sixty days off, to recover. Then I went back to work and enrolled in school. My brother and his family, lived in New York with me for two years, and moved back to Virginia. My younger brother and sister moved with them. I rented the upper level of my house and lived on the lower level. I was able to obtain three college degrees while working at Newsday. An Associate Degree in Business, A Bachelor Degree in Business, and An Associate Degree in Nursing. I was really interested in business but when I went looking for jobs in the business field, I could not find a job that I felt comfortable or compatible with. I also knew that Newspaper companies were either going out of business or downsizing all over the country. My intuition told me I needed to have some other profession to fall back on, just in case I lost my job at Newsday. Several of my friends were Nurses and encouraged me, to go into the Nursing field. They emphasized that the Nursing field was a good profession, and that men were needed in the profession. I was convinced and became a Registered Nurse. At about the time I became a nurse, I was laid off of my job from the newspaper company, after working there for twenty-six years. I was too shell-shocked, mystified, and befuddled, to know how to react. The company’s decision to lay off people throughout the company, came with such a short notice, three weeks, there was no time to prepaid for anything. I wasn’t too worried, because now I was a Registered Nurse and I figured, I’d get a job in no time. I had never been unemployed. It took me thirteen months to land a full time job as a Nurse. Those thirteen months were trying times for me. Many sleepless nights, I wondered, how I was going to survive. If God ever gets tired, he got tired of hearing from me. During that thirteen months, I must have mailed out about two hundred resumes. I pounded the pavement and methodically sought employment in every hospital, health care facility, nursing home, everywhere I could think of, and no one would hire me. That kind of rejection was tough and depressing, especially when I knew there was a job available, but the employer just didn’t want me for the job. Whenever I went on a job interview, I always had a few questions I would ask the recruiters, to try to get some sense of exactly what they were looking for, that would convince them to hire someone. Finally, after applying for a job at the Veterans Hospital in Northport, New York, I was on my way home, and I saw a sign for Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood New York. I said to myself, “What the hell. Since I’m out here, I might as well apply and see if they are hiring.” I applied, and six weeks later, I went back to follow-up on my initial application, just as the employment office had advised me to do. A day later, a gentleman called me and told me they had openings for Nurses. He asked me when could I start working. My answer was, “YESTERDAY!!!!” I landed my first full time job as a Registered Nurse, thirteen, tumultuous, agonizing, months later. In my profession as a Registered Nurse, my duties include treating patients for all types of ailments, administering medication, family counseling, conflict resolution, discharge planning, employment and relationship issues, depression, anxiety, body image issues, nutrition, drug abuse, diet, exercise, etc. My experience and personal background lead me to write this book, knowing, that I could help others who have become unemployed, cope with unemployment, find a job, and save money.