Comments on: Formerly employed

By: Still Your Mind Now

Still Your Mind Now — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:44:45 +0000

Excellent content here and a nice writing style too - keep up the great work!

By: alanb

alanb — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:17:12 +0000

By: StephanieDolgoff

StephanieDolgoff — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:16:40 +0000

Sorry–didn’t mean to sound flip. More ramen as a symbol of simpler times, something we’re forced to return to, whether we want to or not.

By: Bethina

Bethina — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:36:06 +0000

I was a valued employee for 25 years at newspapers and magazines. Yet, after 10 years of loyal service, I lost my editing job at TV Guide two years in one of the many waves of job eliminations. The most recent massacres at EW and TV Guide have left many friends jobless as well, and I don’t know what everyone’s going to do. There are now more and more people looking for nonexistent jobs. Thank you for your heartfelt words. I would just ask that you not be quite as flip as to say ramen will get all of us through this. I am lucky enough to have a husband with a good job and, so important these days, good benefits, including health insurance. I don’t know where I’d be if we didn’t have that. Add to the mix a mortgage, children, car payments, the rising cost of food, etc., etc., and I really don’t know how some people are going to hang on until things get better. I can only hope this amazing team Obama is putting together can come up with some answers to pull people through this awful crisis.

By: Dani in NC

Dani in NC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:57:32 +0000

You captured exactly how I felt about being laid off at age 40. I didn’t love my job, but I was willing to tolerate it to pay my mortgage. Ramen and I have been on friendly terms for months :-).

By: Aviva

Aviva — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:35:32 +0000

I ost two good editors at Redbook and I’m sure that’s just the beginning. It’s so demoralizing! And we may be rediscovering Ramen ourselves if Citibank goes Chapter 11, which it very well might–like in about 45 minutes. Ouch!