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    Unemployment
    Unemployment
    Unemployment
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    Unemployment

    By TJ Seitz

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    Essay about being middle aged and unemployed during The Recession.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTJ Seitz
    Release dateNov 20, 2011
    ISBN9781465802781
    Unemployment
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    TJ Seitz

    On the surface Mr. Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. TJ is married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family in a suburban split level house located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY.Seitz has spend the majority of his professional career working as an information technology specialist in the fields of education, criminal justice/law enforcement and procurement.While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy from Empire State College.As an undergraduate student TJ attended writing classes taught by George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual wasp’s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJ’s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood.In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJ’s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies, a divorce, a few bouts with unemployment and colon cancer to the mix did not help much either.TJ is currently working on several writing projects/ideas and recently took a graduate writing class proctored by James Whorton.Mr. Seitz's essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both in the United States and England.

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      Unemployment - TJ Seitz

      Unemployment

      T.J. Seitz

      Copyright 2011 by T.J. Seitz

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      My brain is starting to play tricks on me while the second hand blindly ticks away on the old-school analog clock hanging above my head. My thoughts wander aimlessly and I often find myself wrestling with bizarre ideas that are hard to control. It’s entertaining at times but can also be disturbing. I begin to wonder which Greek god I upset. Did I do something bad in a past life that affected my Karma or is this experience nothing more than a lesson in character building?

      Being unemployed with nothing but time to burn, a large stack

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