Enter
riod of time.
And, actually, that’s a lie. That
time in my life is more than eight
years in the past. And I was fortunate enough to experience unemployment in the pre-Great Recession age, before this strange new
normal settled on the landscape.
The thing is, it doesn’t take much
for my brain to tap that old well
of fear and spread the anxiety I
felt for that half-year throughout
my body. The recall is near instant, and the emotional response
beyond my control.
But this was before the rest of
the world downturned in 2008,
and unemployment shifted from
being a terrifying, ethereal setback
to something that felt hand-delivered