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How Long-Term Unemployment Challenges Professional Identity

I have been unemployed for eight months and my savings are gone but I cannot bring myself to take just any job because I feel like giving up on my career.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Extended unemployment forces a reckoning between practical survival needs and professional self-concept.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and time — the exchange at the heart of work?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.