Jobless in Jersey

Dispatches from the land of the unemployed.

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

It’s Me Again

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Oh, hello there. Been a while. But since more than  22  30 million (and counting) people are now unemployed, I figured it was a good time t...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

So, How Does it Feel?

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The emails jammed my already crowded inbox with regularity, all with the same theme: So and So had been laid off at my two former workplace...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Double Standard

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A few weeks ago ESPN dumped some of its grossly overpaid on-air “personalities” in a mass layoff. This set off the expected boo-hoo-ing in ...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

One More Time

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I read the email subject line and immediately my stomach rumbled. “Editorial assignments changing,” it said. Let’s talk over the phone, the...
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Jerzey Girl
A life-long resident of New Jersey, Jerzey Girl has been a journalist for more than 25 years. She first covered municipal government in Northern New Jersey for a daily newspaper, then moved on to a nursing journal where she served as the news editor. She has also worked as a copy editor at a national women's magazine and spent 16 years covering the commercial real estate market in the U.S. Now unemployed once again, she is trying to recover from the stomach ulcer covering the annuity industry gave her. Oh, and she’s still looking for a rich old guy to marry. (“Sure, honey, I'll help you down the stairs.”)
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