I feel so sorry for affluent white men losing their high paying jobs

I feel so sorry for affluent white men losing their high paying jobs

This is by far the stupidest thing I ever read. I am not an affluent white man and I lost my job in my particular industry. I graduated a few years ago and with only three years of back office experience there are not many people wanting to take me on board due to me still being a junior and wanting people with more experience.

I've spent a year teaching English and have recently manage to secure a job in the Shipping Industry.

My question to you is - do you have any idea what it is like being called into an office and being told that you're being cut? Do you have any idea what that feeling of clearing your desk out and walking out of the office for the last time is like while everybody watches you knowing that you're doing the final march?

I lost my apartment, what I thought was my dignity and self worth, I went from independence to having to move back in with my folks, from going home whenever I wanted to being back on a curfew. I can't imagine what it would be like having to go back home to a wife and kids and telling them that I don't have a job. It wouldn't matter what color you are, where you're from - losing your job is a serious thing. At least I had a safety net in the form of my parents - what happens when you are the safety net and cannot be that for your family?

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It's sad when anybody is laid off, especially if it is unexpected. Today, this seems to be happening a lot and I empathize with those who have to go through lay offs. Sometimes people are laid off when they are close to retirement unexpectedly. That is cruel. Big business is like politics -nasty.