Am cleaning out my laptop in order to send it for repairs before the warranty expires, without this puppy I am utterly lost and would have to wait for 15 minute intervals at the library to access their computers.
As I read, delete and sort through countless unread emails that I long ago filed in my "read later" folder, I found the following article that a colleague sent. I never read it even though my colleague wrote in the body of her email, "I am a single mom of two and feel exactly the same way this woman feels! I know you sure as hell can relate to this article." I clicked on the link and started reading it, and it struck a chord -- four years later after this artcle was written I sit here today and I feel exactly the same way as both the friend who sent it back then, and the writer did!
Posted November 17, 2010 on AOL job, "The Forgotten Woman" was written by a single woman, with no children, who worked as a CEO/CFO of a construction company before being laid off.
She honestly shares... "No one could have ever prepared me for the magnitude of loss that accompanies unemployment. What most people don't realize is that today's unemployed are the lepers in society from years gone by. The judgment and apathy you experience from others is indescribable at best. I was once surrounded by hundreds of friends, happy-hour invitations and social outings; now I am completely and unequivocally on my own. Single in the truest sense of the word. Oddly enough, my closest friends left first, within the first six months. And as each month passed, the phone calls of support lessened, the offers to help disappeared and e-mails went unanswered."
Click here to read the rest of Mollee D. Harper's story.
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