Self-respect during Unemployment
Name : Riad Ahmed.
Section : 23
Course Name : ENG 103
Course Instructor : Maleka Sarwar
Submission Date : 21st October, 2013
Self-respect during Unemployment
Unemployment (or joblessness) occurs when people are without work and actively
seeking work. It is one of the fastest growing problems Bangladesh as more and more
people are graduating from universities every year. Unemployment can affect people in many
ways. Being unemployed can cause people to lose their self-respect. Families, friends, neighbors
play important roles in doing that.
Family is the first to make unemployed people feel bad about themselves. They constantly
ask the unemployed ones if he/she got any job. Some of them think that he/she aren’t getting any
jobs because he/she is simply lazy. They don’t get that just because they got same education
The Term Paper on Unemployment 4
In every society there will always be a number of people who are unemployed. Unemployment is when there are people in our society who desire work but are unable to obtain it because of the fact that there are not enough jobs for everyone. There are many factors that can cause unemployment but one of the biggest factors is lack of private investment. This is caused by private companies not ...
doesn’t mean that they are all the same. Relatives don’t understand that the situations now are
way different than the situations at their time. So what the family members do is that they make
the unemployed ones feel more depressed than he/she already do with or without knowing
it. This became more intolerable when an earning member loses his/her job. Because as he/she is
unemployed his/her family can’t maintain their social status. Sometimes they even blame the
person for having no job. This bound make a person feel so little of himself/herself.
Neighbors are people that we see every day. Although they are a very important part in our
life, sometimes they are the ones that make the unemployed persons lose their self-respect.
Neighbors judge all the time even if they are in no position to judge. They constantly compare the
unemployed ones with others. Some neighbors ask about employment even if they know the
answer. Sometimes they do it just to make them uncomfortable. The worst part is that, neighbors
always talk behind back. They comment on unemployed persons situations without even knowing
the full story.
Lastly, there are friends and class mates. Friends are the ones that make us, who are
unemployed; the most depressed and lose self respect. After graduating from the same university
some people gets jobs easily. But those who aren’t as capable have a hard time finding any. Then
there is the matter of finding the right job because a person who has a college degree can’t
possibly work as a pizza delivery man or something like that. Post graduates who are still
unemployed always feel very embarrassed. They can’t go to party because there might be
someone who’s going to ask you the question “What are you doing now?”. For, an unemployed
person, the answer should be “nothing”. But it’s not that easy to say. When you’re unemployed
you will see that a lot of your friends are traveling or going somewhere during the holidays but
you can’t join them without feeling uncomfortable because you are currently unemployed.
The Term Paper on Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” Robert Frost’s Mending Wall taps into the lives of two neighbors and the importance of the fence between their properties. The original purpose of a fence was to keep the dog from running away, and to keep the farm animals together. Frost shows us how the fence keeps the peace in a neighborhood and shows the boundary between the two. Frost taps into the mind of ...
Unemployment will keep you away even from a dear friend with whom you used to spend a lot of
time with.
Being unemployed are one of hardest phases in life a person has to go through. During this
time friends, families, neighbors of the unemployed person puts him/her in a very awkward
position and make him/her feel so little of himself/herself. Losing self respect at that time is very
common thing for the unemployed person. The question is how much self respect he/she loses and
how quickly. .
