At a dinner party a few weeks ago, a friend confided she was soon to be laid off from a job she loved, at a company where she’d worked for more than 25 years. She was adamant about how great it was going be to take some time off for the first time in her adult life. Full Story »
Posted by Kristin Gorski
Long-form first person account of losing a long term job, which at the end cites a few other sources and talks about how he eventually managed to separate the content of the work he loved from the context, as he became, through the luck of a job offer, a freelance editor with more than enough work. He's candid in the pain he went through and also acknowledges that his financial situation was never dire: he had no debt, health problems, no dependents, and a prosperous partner who would provide him health insurance.
I'd love to see the author the (or someone else) write on what others without the assets he had are experiencing, as the financial news that the recession is over over fail to take into account that a "jobless recovery" may not be a recovery. Ironically, it's as if the Post had to have a white guy answer to a white gal piece in yesterday's NYT magazine, which excerpted an essay from a whole book on the topic. (See link) But both of these are pieces by people of privilege.
Moving first-person account of a layoff. The author shares his own experience fairly and factually -- with thoughtful insights on how it feels to lose a job after two decades. A great story about an important issue that is affecting more and more Americans.
just taken as it is, it is excellent—a well-written New York account of getting lucky after losing a job in a white-collar field that is imploding. But it is very class- and caste-specific. Not that many people in this field (including my relatives, actually) have been able to find secure free-lance or other, related jobs—or have partners with health insurance!, And years ago when I was laid off in publishing, eventually free-lancers were also out of luck as the economy worsened. The Post story is inspirational but classically "anecdotal": it does not speak to the experience of many or most in this recession/dpression, and certainly not to those in blue-collar industries. And the keyword links are ridiculous: no relation to ... More »
A very well-written, first-person account of losing a job in publishing (an area hit especially hard in NYC). This long-form piece is uncharacteristic for the NYPost, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it. It provides a clear picture of the what is happening to thousands of people in the NYC-area from losing jobs in the recession.
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