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Unemployed: A Memoir

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Unemployed: A Memoir  

I represent the American worker that feels the “fell clutch of circumstance,” to quote Invictus, at or around forty years of age. I bare witness to the fact that despite past performance, college preparation, individual contribution, teamwork, no one is immune to the Leviathan called the global economy and its dictates to save on costs: the largest being employees and benefits. I am an example of the human toll of NAFTA and CAFTA. These are not programs of one party or the other: these are programs that affect the many and enrich the few. If I were to smile and disappear like a “good Cheshire cat” ala “Alice in Wonderland,” what has happened to me, what has happened to many, what is and will, in the foreseeable future, still happen, will not be corrected unless a new report is given.

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    A review of myself: "The Problem is the Autoworkers"

    I knelt to pray before the show.

    Even though it was in my own office and I was wearing (well, should I tell you what I was wearing?), put it this way: I should not have been sweating as much as I was!

    And: there I was!  The sound of my own voice was distracting me from the business of broadcasting.  My first radio broadcast, an Internet one.  Wow!

    I'm doing this because I'm supposed to be blessed.  I've spent the better part of an eighteen year marriage trying to raise kids the "right" way, go to church every Sunday and set an example for them and others to follow.

    I go to church.  I tithe.  I usher and do Teen Ministry.  Yet, I'm not using the degree I graduated college in: again.  Like I didn't at first in the military.  Like I didn't to my fullest in the semiconductor industry.  I got laid off by a company that's now decided the business it created - cellular telephones 35 years ago - went off without them.

    So: I'm broadcasting a book that was before 2006 a blog, a rant.  The many times I could have left industry, SHOULD have left industry for graduate school while my kids were young and I was fairly spry.

    Fear.  Fear of instability.  Fear of change from the status quo.  Fear of the unknown.  A Masters and a PhD confer titles, responsibilities that take you away from the water cooler and put on a mantle of responsibility that doesn't jive well with the rest of the crabs (in the same boiling pot).

    Engineering is easier than people and degree programs make it out to be in industry.  I personally know engineers with undergraduates in: Zoology, Botany, Psychology.  I know technicians who maxed out their pay grades and had engineer "conferred" via committee.  This meant they could no longer get time-and-a-half (if any of us get that anymore).

    So, I'm broadcasting because the world shifted under my feet while I was trying to be "steady Eddy."

    Judging from the numerous calls I didn't pick up on the switchboard (my sincerest apologies - "operator error"), the world shifted under a lot of other peoples' feet, too.

    I'm broadcasting.  I'm talking again, 10 January 2009 (Happy New Year - I HOPE!) about "Collateral Damage."

    If you can relate to that, if you've suffered any due to job or business loss, please feel free to call (646) 929-1300.  A few more of us would like to hear from you.

    Reggie Goodwin
    www.reggiegoodwin.com
    Author: "Unemployed: A Memoir"
    "The soul that is within me, no man can degrade."  Frederick Douglass

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