Your unemployment will make people you meet wiser than you.
You have found or will find that when you interact with people you will occasionally hear The Lecture. That laser-focus, one-sided discussion in which you are told in no uncertain terms what you should do about employment. It’s the same capsulized lecture that teenagers hear when they take a job training course. The galling thing for me is that I’m in my 50’s and have successfully worked my entire life until recently. Ouch.
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