Hope in the Recession

Hey everyone. Here’s an uplifting article I found on CNN.com:

Laid-off Workers Find Fulfillment in New Careers

The article is a series of accounts of people who lost their jobs because of the recession. These people didn’t let a little economic downturn slow them down though. They took their lemons and made lemonade by turning their unemployment into new careers—usually dream careers that they had always wanted. The article talks about a woman who was accepted into nursing school the same week that she was laid off and a car salesman who is working his way up the ladder in government after being laid off and another woman who, after being laid off used her newly found time to write a book. All of these people have found that the recession gave them a chance to switch paths back to where they always wanted to be.

The article really reiterates the idea we’ve seen before: that the recession is the perfect time to start training for a new career. Just like the people in the article, there are many people out there who are in a position to change their lives through a new education and the recession is opening doors for people to make that change.

Good luck out there everyone.