Description
This book shows how to find sanity in a jobless reality and how to make it your job to find a job. It will also show the reader how to avoid falling into the classic pity party after a layoff.
Drawing from two personal layoff experiences, Mary Aucoin Kaarto covers subjects like money matters, lessons to be learned during a layoff, and the fruitful blessings that may come. Family members and friends will learn how to respond to their loved one during this time of need. A reality-based challenge is offered that, if followed, may be a beneficial, life-changing, experience to the person who accepted the challenge and the one who needs help.
- As of April 2009, 8.5% of the work-age adults in the United States are unemployed. This number is now over 9% and has been this high for several months - predictions are it will remain in this range for another several months.
- The economy and layoffs are main subjects in the nightly news, newspapers, and radio.
"A consummate optimist, Mary turned what some may consider a discouraging circumstance, into an opportunity—an opportunity to offer sound advice to others in the same situation. She offers concerned encouragement to those looking for employment and to their families and takes the opportunity to share her faith in Jesus Christ." (Keith Carmichael, Associate Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Houston)
Mary Aucoin Kaarto is an author, guest speaker, and former journalist who is passionate about helping the unemployed find a joyful, victorious, life in Christ, and about providing companionship to the elderly. She is the mother of one daughter and “Nammy” to one granddaughter. Mary and her husband live in Texas.
Listen to Lloyd Hildebrand's interview with the author.
Watch author's interview on KHOU in Houston, TX.