683 Quotes About Joblessness



  • Author Barbara Ehrenreich
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    This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.

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  • Author Karl Wiggins
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    Why should you and I pay for the lazy sods? They’ve given up looking for a job! Why should we pay for them? While you drag your arse out of bed and put in a shift, they sleep, play video games, watch Jeremy Kyle, eat and shit. And yet you and I have to pay for their very existence!

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  • Author Doris Lessing
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    There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.

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  • Author Doris Lessing
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    هناك غضبٌ معيّن يرافق العاطلين ، وَ المثابرة ، وَ الإحباط ، كان هذا يختلف لمجرد أن يكون الإنسان عاطلا

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