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BOSTON Abe Gorelick has decades of marketing experience, an extensive contact list, an Ivy League undergraduate degree, a masters in business from the University of Chicago, ideas about how to reach consumers young and old, experience working with businesses from start-ups to huge financial firms and an upbeat, effervescent way about him. What he does not have and has not had for the last year is a full-time job.
Five years since the recession ended, it is a story still shared by millions. Mr. Gorelick, 57, lost his position at a large marketing firm last March. As he searched, taking on freelance and consulting work, his familys finances slowly frayed. He is now working three jobs, driving a cab and picking up shifts at Lord & Taylor and Whole Foods.
Im not in my basement, unshaven, unshowered, drinking a bottle of Scotch a day, Mr. Gorelick said. Im out there working these jobs, meeting people and trying to make something happen. But it is exhausting. It is stressful. It is difficult.
For people experiencing such long spells without appropriate work, it is a crisis. Often, it is also a conundrum: What should a worker who finds himself out of a job for six months or more do?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/business/economy/out-of-work-out-of-benefits-and-running-out-of-options.html?ref=us&_r=1
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(7,051 posts)Out of gas
Out of road
Out of car
I don't know how I'm going to go and
I had a drink the other day
Opinions were like kittens
I was giving them away and
I had a drink the other day
I had a lot to say
And I said
You will come down soon too
You will come down too soon
librechik
(30,674 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)unless he had a Glen Beck tbagger shirt on and a confederate flag. Then the police would leave him alone
librechik
(30,674 posts)They have already won and taken away any relevant rights.
I think we're truly fucked.
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(7,051 posts)We know how that goes ...
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Republican economic policies put him where he is. If he voted Republican he has nothing to bitch about..If he did not then I hope things will turn around for him soon.