Many people have lost everything through this recession… I lost my job and career ‘two recessions ago’ and cannot obtain work to save my life. Am well educated, an engineer. But my family is poor, so no trust fund :)  The pain of being ostracized from society and having a career ripped from my hands is so painful that I want to die. Age discrimination, racism, sexual harrassment, chauvinism, many nasty things go on in the field of engineering.  One must have a skin made of titanium to survive the games, especially if one is a woman. The women in engineering do not always support their sisters. When I was dealing with sexual harrassment, not one woman gave a damn, they sided with the guys.Â
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Some women like me have only our careers. No husband or partner, no kids, no trust fund 🙂  As sleezy as the engineering sector is, it is all I have. I cannot live without my career. This pain I live with, getting up each day, nothing to do, in debt to the point of insanity, always in old clothes, looking exactly like what I am: homeless, jobless, hopeless.. Â
Sometimes the younger generation don’t like us, we remind them of our mothers, but I have never been a mom….Sadly everyone is on the receiving end of racism from time to time,…  no way to avoid it…
8 years is a very large hole in a resume… that is what I am facing…. none of us wishes to walk the streets begging for food and money… as an engineer, that is my worst nightmare…  I would rather leave the planet than do that.Â
If you are experiencing what I am, then contact me…Â Perhaps we can create a network of disenfranchised women and somehow find a way out of this hell…Â thanks for listening sisters…
gail
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I too, have been fired due to retaliation from reporting sexual harrassment and gender discrimination to my employer. I was let go at an executive administrative support level in November 2008, only 9 days after telling my employer that I contacted our Tribunal. I too am having trouble getting employment.
I am so sorry to hear that you are in so much pain. I would like to join your network of friends. In this way we will be helping each other…yYou are not alone…
Mary
I can’t find a job due to the recession and I am considering offing myself because of it. I have a degree, skills, and great references…but nothing.
http://suicideprevention.findtalk.net/index.htm
Wanna visit and join? I just opened it recently and it doesn’t appear on google yet =_= I don’t have a job since i’m still a student and feeding off my parents… I also almost commited suicide. 2 of my friends left me… For good… Sigh…