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It’s Not Professional to Cry While Filling Out Job Applications… Is It?
Experiencing the 7 stages grieving job loss and unemployment in all its emotional glory
November 2020. The last month that we received a reliable pay check. Since then, my partner and I have been living contract to contract. Hustle to hustle.
My partner has always been the reliable one of the two of us. He chose the reliable industry, got the reliable job, and was content to smile through the corporate politics on his way to the top. I have always been grateful for that.
He’s never understood the nature of my working contracts. Unreliable at best, flaky at worst. It's just the nature of the work that I do. I often think that I should have chosen better but then I love what I do and my clients love what I do so I am content. In moments like this, though, I wish that I would have chosen the reliable road. We could have used it right about now.
At the beginning of the month, we had five months of living expenses to tide us over. In the middle of a pandemic recession, we knew we were lucky to have that.
Careful planning had given us a leg up. We didn’t feel so lucky though. My partner had survived 7 rounds of cuts only to get cut when we needed his job the most. We…
