Posted on 02/23/2009 10:38:58 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
A few days after David Adler's wife decided to leave her law firm in December, he was laid off from his job designing software at Brightcove.
It was shocking. And scary.
Until it wasn't. Adler has quickly learned to appreciate some aspects of his unexpected unemployment.
The 42-year-old spends his days doting on his 6-month-old daughter, visiting museums with his family, and preparing for a possible exhibit of his photos at a local coffee shop in Dedham. Living off savings, unemployment, and severance packages, Adler knows he has to get a job eventually and has started the search. But for now, he's cherishing every moment. "It's our first child and I love watching her grow," Adler said. "And it's nice to have time off and get in touch with my old hobbies."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
This is a total cover piece for Obama. Obama is the media's messiah, so they will now look for good in every bad story.
What a difference an administration makes.
Isn’t that the truth. Like a petulant child, the media is up to it’s old tricks.
My friends in Silicon Valley said the same thing in 2002. Two years later the tune changed.
He was unemployed for 2 years?
Um...you’re supposed to be looking for a job if you’re collecting unemployment benefits.
Personally, I believe your words “look for” ought to be changed to “fabricate”. Isn’t this stuff going on in our media the most disgusting situation?
not the entitlementally challenged. They worked hard and put into it, why not enjoy spending it and staying home. Maybe more of us should do the same thing........its the only way responsible people will be able to cash in on their hard earned tax money......
Hubby sounds so feminized I am shocked this happy couple was able to have a child.
A big problem here in MA is the ‘Mandatory Health Insurance’ - my biggest peeve with Mitt Romney. My understanding is that unless you are on unemployment $, you cannot get any help with the COBRA premiums.
A former colleague of mine, who is consulting is paying nearly $500/month COBRA for health insurance just for himself. If you shop around, the plans aren’t really that much cheaper, and the coverages suck.
So unless you get a full time position with benefits, you get screwed here in MA.
Oh - the associated paperwork regarding the health insurance for the MA state income tax form is 2-3 pages. Ridiculous!
Medical professionals could use this article in accidental poisoning cases to induce vomiting!
And guess what? There are no more homeless people now! (Until the next Republican administration that is.)
Gawd I hate liberals.
I figured I'd get a job very quickly, as I was one of small band of elite WAN managers who could handle over 100 networks and keep them separate. Nowadays, my type isn't needed anymore. So after years of contract work here and there, I'm back at school for a degree in cardiovascular technology. Healthcare is where it's at, what with the baby-boomers hitting their senior years.
Reminds me of the liberal push back in the early 90’s to remove scorekeeping at various “children's” sporting events for the “fear” of making someone “FEEL” bad about losing and thus replacing hard work and competition with entitlement. Again just another liberal attempt at creating people who need the government more than the government needs them....
Two months into his layoff. Wait’ll he gets to the 9 or 12 month point and we’ll see how he feels.
Indulge in hobbies with WHAT money?
This article, 6 months ago, would talk about the despair of this 42 year old and how it was all Bush's fault.
Now its all happy time!
This is Potemkin Village communism reporting.
Here are what other 42 year olds are doing. From my local paper yesterday.
Job Search is unemployed executive's full-time quest
I've been there in the past. I've managed to avoid it thus far, but have a whole lot of friends who are going through it as we speak.
Oh, OK. With 0bama in the White House, unemployment is somehow seen as an opportunity to cherish life’s experience. When Bush was president, it meant destitution, starvation and agony.
“The 42-year-old spends his days doting on his 6-month-old daughter, visiting museums with his family, and preparing for a possible exhibit of his photos at a local coffee shop in Dedham.”
One would think, while spending time doting on your 6-month-old daughter is a great parental act, the greater parental act at this time would be getting his sorry a$$ out and getting a job... any job... to feed and house that precious child. I’m getting the idea he’s under the impression 0bama is just going to ride to his rescue in this, the time of change, hope, milk and honey.
Yeah, but the liberal media didn’t come find you because Bush was in office.
Even now, I doubt they’d come and find you being as you’re posting here on FR. Your comments won’t fit the agenda.
“Um...you’re supposed to be looking for a job if you’re collecting unemployment benefits.”
I guess “preparing for a possible exhibit of his photos at a local coffee shop in Dedham” constitutes “looking for a job.”
Yes!
So much for that old-fashioned American rugged individualism, eh?
Since they now have a six month old, that might be a clue. I "decided" to quit work myself after I gave birth.
an acquaintance of mine (single, no kids) moved to Boston for a job. When she was laid-off, she found the lure of Massachusetts unemployment benefits to be so strong that she did not even contemplate looking for another job for at least eighteen months.
I'm sure hubby is going to love that. We joined up with the Commonwealth Care program, when hubby left his job a couple of years ago, to do some private research. We were on COBRA at first, then the premiums were about to go up to $18K a year. We got Harvard Pilgrim through the Commonwealth Care program, and not a minute too soon, because I developed some cardiac problems at Christmas in 2007, and had to have a very expensive procedure done last Fall. I'm thankful we had the coverage.
We were mighty annoyed, when we renewed last Dec., that we were forced to get Prescription Drug Coverage. We didn't want it, and were willing to pay out of pocket for meds. But we didn't have a choice, so we're paying $4K a year, when we won't use near that many meds, even at the retail price! I'd rather have put that money in our HSA to pay for the meds we need.
The worst part about the insurance, though is just trying to figure out what we pay, and what we don't. Hubby is a PhD Statistician, doing research in obscure Math problems, and even HE can't figure it out. I'm sure many folks are willing to accept 'government' health care, because they're so dang frustrated trying to navigate the strange ebb and flow of their health insurance providers.
Be prepared for disappointment.I worked in the British NHS. They are not big on preventative maintenance. Pap smears only every 6 years, mammograms not provided until age 50, etc. No teeth cleaning at the Dentist’s office. Hope you have a job that is in acute care cause that’s pretty much all they do in a nationalized situation.
“I worked in the British NHS”
Since you worked with them, what’s the real story on rationing health care to the elderly?
I live in rural SW Pa.
I'm 61 years old.
Now ... maybe more citified folk can beat the pavement "looking for a job" eight hrs a day, five days a week and report to the UC people they are looking for work ... but I doubt it.
In this modern electronic age, a resume' (almost useless, but one tries, eh?) goes out to a couple of thousand prospective employers with a keystroke.
I went down to the unemployment office the day I was layed off to see what they had, approached the vet rep with 3 potentials, and he pulled up my record (this is not my first rodeo), and with a keystroke, sent my resume out.
"That's it?"
"That's it"
No 3x5 card with a name, address and phone number ... just ..... that's it.
I will not feel guilty about losing a job that was rumored to be lost if zero got in, and ultimately I'm collecting.
And anyone that talks down on we whom are out of work because of a beyond our control layoff is just another elitist puke they say they ain't.
Uneven. My father-in-law was in hospital after falling. He was in a ward with men and women. Yuck! His care was spotty but he is back home now. I had an experience with lack of care when I lived there 1984-86. A lady with whom I worked was fretting all day about her husband. He didn’t feel good, had abdominal pain. I saw hi on my way out of work that day and thought he looked really awful, gray skin, quiet. She took him to their assigned GP after work and the GP told them to stop wasting his time. He said her husband just had indigestion. He was dead the next day of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I told my friend, an American doctor working in Britain, what the symptoms were and he said it sounded like an abdominal aortic aneurysm. That was before the autopsy came out. No use in trying to sue.....you can’t sue the Government. This man was in his upper 60s. I know of other instances of clear malpractice while I was there. Never mind, no one is held accountable.
I wish my hubby had gotten a “severance package”......it must be nice to not work and still get the goodies...
Nope, 5 of them were unemployed for 2 years.
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