WhereYouAreNow

While unemployment rates are rising (in the US and the UK), more and more people are turning to debt to make it by. Using credit cards to pay bills, borrowing money from friends and family, and even taking out loans. I’m sorry, but this is not the answer to the problem.

If you are fired, or laid off, or out of work, you have a new job. That’s right, a new job. You don’t get to “take the day” and mosey around your house or apartment. You have a new FULL TIME job. This job requires 8 hours of your attention every day and does not include a paid lunch. It should start promptly at 8am and end 8 hours later. Monday through Friday, this is your new job: LOOKING FOR A JOB.

I know, easy, right? Well apparently not if the unemployment rate keeps going up. But let me encourage you: you are better than that. You do not need to stay in that number. You do not need to settle for government hand outs and you do not need to NOT WORK because that is what other unemployed people are doing.

If you are laid off, your new job is finding a job. If it takes two full weeks (80 hours) to land the next job then that is what it takes. Call every person you know, or knew, and get your feelers out there! Look online. Call temp agencies. Settle for SOMETHING. Dig ditches for all I care. As long as you are being paid and are not relying on DEBT to live then I’m happy, and you should be too.

The worst thing you can do for yourself, and your family (or future family), is sit on your butt all day after being laid off. Some may look at losing a job as a terrible thing, and some make it into a terrible thing by not doing anything about it, but it can be used for good. Start your own business. Change careers. Etc. JUST DON’T SIT AROUND DOING NOTHING!! Get creative and do what it takes to stay out of using debt to live. Because, my friend, you are better than that, and you know it as well as I do.