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>its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control. Let's be clear-- there is no true safety net for middle-income profes
by drtillberg 6y ago
>its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control.
Let's be clear-- there is no true safety net for middle-income professionals. We can draw down savings and cross our fingers that this resume gap doesn't kill a professional career. And that's just the financial and career consequences. There definitely are other consequences of unemployment too.
I feel fortunate not to live in L.A. county but the public health response my state is not a lot less draconian. I just am astounded. I would love to wrap everyone and everything in bubble wrap as much as the next person to protect everyone from a very dangerous world but this is too much.
- gbear605 6y agoResume wise, you’re in the same boat as everyone else
- drtillberg 6y agoEveryone's situation is different. Unemployment isn't 100% and the class of 2021 won't have this gap. Think employers are rational enough to iron that out? Nah, you have more faith than me.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoNo, I live in a different city and I am fortunate to still have a job. A different boat exists, and I am in it.
- ralph84 6y agoCareers never fully recover from extended unemployment. There is plenty of research on this from previous downturns.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThere hasn't been a "previous downturn" with this concentrated (size × time) an unemployment spike. It's weird to claim we know now how employers will react to it yet when they see "unemployed, May 2020" on a resume.
- greglindahl 6y agoDidn't recessions in the US, 100 years ago, used to be huge and always have V-shaped recoveries?
- ceejayoz 6y agoThe Department of Labor didn't collect unemployment numbers until the 1940s, but it's my understanding that the recent spike in filings is unique in size since they did.