perspective

a lot of my previous entries were private….but here comes a public one!

yesterday, i was at a career center that was a mandatory meeting in order to continue getting benefits.  i was put into a room with other people who were let go from finance companies, and it was interesting to see such a wide variety of people.  i felt really bad for the older unemployed people who were there.  they have families to provide for.  they have mortgages to pay.  although i am unlucky to be unemployed, i am lucky to be YOUNG and unemployed.  yes, not having a job when you once thought you were set for life sucks.  but i am lucky that i still have time to explore other careers.  perspective is powerful

one really cool (is cool the right word?) thing about being unemployed is that the government is giving people who were let go by certain finance companies up to 12,500 in grant money for any means of training to get back into the workforce.  that means i can take classes to go into a different field (or people who still want to be in finance can take additional courses, like CFA prep classes).  now there’s a lot of fine print, with one of them being that the state has analyzed how favorable certain job prospects are for different industries, and you need to find training in an industry that is favorable or very favorable.

there’s this 10 pages list of different jobs and job functions that were ranked by the state as being very favorable, favorable, less favorable, and least favorable.  it’d be really interesting how they come up with the results.  even if i were to get a job, if the grant already went through, i’m still allowed to continue with the course i signed up for.  i’m definitely going to take advantage of this

and today, obama was awarded the nobel peace prize.  wow that came out of left field.  i’m not sure how much he deserved it, but i am glad that he’s giving the 1.4 million in prize money to charity.  good for him (unless he’s just trying to pay less taxes)

will try to update more often…so until next time!

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