Surviving Unemployment: Staying Centered While Your World Turns Upside Down [Paperback]

valerie pederson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2005

Surviving Unemployment will help you at every turn of your unemployment experience. The book begins by helping you recover from your initial job loss trauma, then it moves onto inspiring your day to day activities, including finding and getting a job. Finally it provides relaxations and affirmations that are specifically written for the job hunter. When you are unemployed it is not only your task to get a new job, but it is also your task to be content and confident during the time you are unemployed. This book is about not feeling alone and dreading the extra time that you are suddenly given, it is about feeling your best when you go on job interviews despite the fact that you really want the job and your inner negative voice is saying you're not qualified. In other words it is about living life mindfully, while you wait for your work life to start again.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Valerie has been a meditator since a young age and a practicing Buddhist since 1989. She has a degree in both Psychology and Writing. She has spent almost 20 years writing mostly computer software and hardware manuals with some financial and medical manuals thrown in for good luck. She currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Mark, her Chihuahua Lily and cat Merc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (August 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141163375X
• ISBN-13: 978-1411633759
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,463,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Get your sense of your 'whole' self back after being unemployed!, October 3, 2005

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Mark Purinton (Stow, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surviving Unemployment: Staying Centered While Your World Turns Upside Down (Paperback)

I read this book after being out of job for a month when my true self was not seeing clearly. This book gave me a roadmap back into financial and mental sanity.
After I got my sanity back, the book helped me obtain the job that I was looking for with a
positive attitude. This book is an easy read.
The suggestions and knowledge gained from reading this book, can be used once on the job again.
This is a timely self-help book for the times, I am now experiencing, in the fast technological transformation in the global employment and hiring practices of companies.
Thanks, Valerie Pederson for writing this book at this time.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lengthy Tome and Pricey to Boot, May 3, 2006

By 

Mike Miller (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surviving Unemployment: Staying Centered While Your World Turns Upside Down (Paperback)

Okay info but "Unemployment Boot Camp:Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century," by R.A. Long is better, kitschier book for half the price! Brief and to-the-point, "Unemployment Boot Camp" offers action steps and interactive exercises in a boot camp theme that's geared toward overcoming the often paralyzing emotions that accompany job loss. It was a quick read with clear and doable steps that helped me refocus my energies on feeling good and in control for the first time in a long time since being given the boot from corporate America.

Mike Miller (Phoenix, AZ)