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When Unemployment Forces You to Choose Between Survival and Integrity

I've been unemployed for eight months and I'm getting desperate but every job I'm qualified for feels like it would require me to abandon parts of myself I'm not ready to give up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Extended economic vulnerability can create pressure to accept work that compromises core aspects of identity and values.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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