Showing posts with label jobless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jobless. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2015

Tips on Surviving Unemployment

Being pregnant and unemployed is one of the most stressful combination. I mean, worrying about where to get the money to pay for my doctors' professional fees and how to pay for the hospital bill once I give birth is a total headache, especially since we've spent most of our savings buying meds for my gestational diabetes, prenatal checkups and ER bills (I've been in and out of the hospital due to asthma). Unfortunately, my husband is not earning much and I've earned basically nothing for the past months due to my [unpaid] sick leaves/absences. To top it off, my husband and I are in serious debt.

So what to do? I know that our situation might sound hopeless, but rather than mope around and drown in self pity, today, I decide to swallow it all up and ACCEPT that I am unemployed but NOT helpless. You see, I like to believe it's all in the mindset. So starting today, I'm going to set a personal goal: to survive.

Surviving Unemployment
Get up and make things happen!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Mrs. Unemployed

And so yesterday, I finished up working with my company of 4 years. I wouldn't say I was happy about it, after all, it provided my family bread and butter since 2011, but I was somehow relieved from all the dramas and stress at work. Though I am now officially part of the 7% unemployed folks in the Philippines, is now a PAL (n: palamunin) by profession and due to give birth in a months time, I think I don't have much choice but to enjoy this "career" for a while.


Now I can take my OB's "bed rest" advice more seriously.