Journey In Unemployment Land | 24
Post 24: 2/21/2015
2025-02-21 20:53:08
Month 9, week 3 into my #JourneyInUnemploymentLand. We need to have an honest conversation about why we work, colleagues.
🪞A few weeks ago, I shared that I filed for bankruptcy and I haven’t gotten a dime in unemployment insurance since I was laid off. I expressed worries that I couldn’t support my family. When I decided to share this, I did worry about how this would be perceived. Would people think I was complaining for attention? Were recruiters to believe I was begging? Either way, I typed up my little sentences and pressed post.
🥹 And, y’all…I’m shocked by how much that post resonated. Despite the absence of comments, I can see how many people saw it. Heck, I received a handful of messages from people encouraging me to keep talking so…let’s talk.
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏽 Let’s talk about how being unemployed plays with our psyche. I’ve had desperate moments of panic, wondering how my family and I were going to survive, if there was a way out of no way, and whether or not I exhausted every resource available to me. My confidence withers away in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
💼 The truth is, colleagues, that human beings are supposed to work. Some of us are motivated by money. Others want the recognition, the thrill of being at the top of the hill and looking down at everyone else. Most of us work because it feels good to provide for ourselves and our family. We work because we have to eat, pay our bills, and find time to enjoy life along the way.
So my question to you this week is: why do you work? What is your why?