Tuesday, 16 October 2012

How to Overcome the stigma of unemployment



How to overcome the stigma of unemployment should not be a phenomenon that is far to seek because it is only those that are out of jobs for one reason or another that can fill the pinch of abject poverty. As an able bodied person without any corporal defect whatsoever, you wake up in the morning and do not have one particular thing to do or a particular place to go and without a cent in your pocket to meet up with the most mundane of your daily needs, then you do not need a soothsayer to tell you that the life is not a bed of roses.

It is, no doubt, a bush of thorns also when you stay alone in your environment while your mates go to their different places of work and return at the end of the day totally worn out because of the routine and the attendant challenges that have become their normal way of life. This is more aggravated particularly when you are a living witness with what they do with the fruits of their labor that is their ability to make both end ends meet without tears there is no gainsaying the fact that you will feel quite despondent particularly when you are unable to come out of your own cocoon and be in the same camp with them.

What you always do is to analyze yourself and see where you are found wanting, not because you are do not have good educational qualification that can stand you in a good stead of a required standard of life like your peers, but the work for you to do is not just there no matter how hard you may look for it. When you take into account the number of establishments, factories and offices to which you have submitted an application for employment but which yield negative results always, there is no way you will not feel that life is being unfair to you.

As it is the case in our society today, thousands of graduates are churned out of our tertiary institutions like the universities and polytechnics with the authorities incapable of providing employment opportunities for the young ones and since they virtually have nothing to do, they have no option than to resort to crimes both high-tech and low-tech to survive the very harsh conditions of life to which there is no end in sight for now.

Thanks goodness, the Internet has provided a wide range of opportunities and the only way out of this horrible social condition is to resort to the world wide web and search for the wide range of opportunities and with much diligence they will be in a good position to get something like paid data services from which they can make a little bit of income to survive. Overcoming the stigma of unemployment is no easy task but since every dark cloud has a silver lining, the question of sitting on the fence and bemoan one’s fate should no longer arise and all that is necessary to do is to act and avoid wishful thinking which is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good.


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