Review: The Author Adopts an Appropriate Emotional Level
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
The best thing about this book is the emotional level that the writer adopts to match the foul and desperate mood experienced by the latest layoff victim. The book is also full of humour and levels with those in dire straits.The book is more of an inspirational book, without the inspirational cottage industry feel-good stuff, than a practical, proper book of lists of things to do while unemployed and resources to contact. In fact this book disavows lists, correctly guessing that the unemployed victim wouldn't be in a mood for lists anyway.It tells you what to avoid given the temptations in today's world that make us lazy (i.e. soap operas and web surfing) but allows you to treat yourself to recover your feelings.I liked the suggestions that you deal with money issues right away while you still haven't fallen into that post-layoff deep funk yet.The only thing I didn't fully jibe with was the top ten list at the end of the book. While the content is fine, for the most part it didn't match up with the major categories of advice already present in the book. If that's the "top ten" why did the author not mention them in the book? Perhaps it would be better to present the list as a humorous aside, like "the top ten things not mentioned in the book" or "the top ten things the author forgot about while banging at his computer" or something like that.