The View From Home

As the economy recovers, employment is often the last thing to recover. The key to lowering the unemployment rate at this point is to encourage entrepreneurship at all levels of the economy.

Of course, that doesn’t provide immediate solutions for those who are still unemployed. My best advise for those individuals is to consider further education, other fields of employment, as well as relocation.

Hopefully the economy will continue to improve and these issues will be a problem of the past. But when all things are considered it sometimes comes down to being willing to change fields or relocate. Doing whatever needs to be done in order to survive is an important consideration. One can live off of unemployment benefits, but for how long.

I have personally gone on unemployment twice, each time for about a two month stretch. In all honesty I wasn’t super gone ho a out finding work. I still tried and got lucky but each time needed to recover psychologically from the blow of losing my job. I feel I got to use some of the benefits I pay for each year through taxes.

A friend of mine had a different situation. He was in a highly specialized field. One that is very difficult to get work in. Unfortunately this friend had to use all of his benefits and eventually ran out. In the end he had to change fields, but was willing to self teach himself the knowledge necessary to enter a new field. I look forward to seeing him succeed.