The GREAT Recession
In a severe recession you have to adjust rapidly, you have to be flexible, and you must be able to leverage transferable skills. Surviving in a severe recession is new territory for most of us who grew up rarely lacking anything. Now every one’s financial security is here today and possibly gone tomorrow.
“We’re in a very severe recession, and we haven’t seen the bottom of it yet, so things are not good right now,” said Steve Agee, professor of economics at Oklahoma City University. “We’re experiencing difficulty in most of our major components of aggregate demand, but we’re not even close to being at the same level as the Great Depression.”
Are you worried over the stress of losing a job or have you already lost your job?
Richard Hawk from Attack Stress suggests five steps that will help you with any type of worrying:
1- Describe exactly what you are worried about.
2- Make two lists.
List A – Worries that you can do something about
List B - Worries completely out of your control
3- Brainstorm and research.
4- DO SOMETHING!!!
5- Stop thinking about the things that are out of your control.
Why worry about something that you have no control over? If you lost your job you should immediately begin planning what you need to do next. Go get that just-laid-off checklist from Recessionwire and heed the practical advice given at their site. Learn to use transferable job skills from previous jobs, be flexible, and STOP WORRYING!
There are some things that you will not want to do in order to bang out the next buck. I do not specifically like working on HDTV’s because some of them are big, bulky, and difficult to dismantle. I would much rather be sitting comfortably at my desk, sipping a cup of fresh brewed coffee, twittering, and tracking malware botnets. Unfortunately tracking malware botnets will not pay my bills, but HDTV’ repair will supplement current income enough to keep the $$$’s above board financially.
What are the tricks of the trade during unsure economic times?
Be resourceful, stay committed to flexibility, and always give gratitude for what you have. There will always be someone worse off than you are.
Other helpful links:
The 405 Club aptly named for New York’s maximum unemployment benefit of $495 a week. A place where the newly unemployed can share advice to navigate through the tough and treacherous environment of unemployment.
If you are hungry and can’t afford to purchase filet mignon, you can always wander over to Great Depression Cooking With Clara to learn how to make simple, inexpensive and delicious meals.
Until we meet again – stay safe!
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