By
Sampson I.M Onwuka
The question we should ask about unemployment is whether or
not we speak of unemployment when we speak about unemployed people, or whether
we speak a silent and uncanny language different from employment, placed issues
concerning those either in process of obtaining a job and unemployed numbers
when we compare and contrast on people’s attitude to obtaining job in any
field. Does unemployment and depression conjure up a picture of this drug
addiction and people that peruse on it, or is it a question of the stages of
one’s psychological transformations, perhaps caught between a changing
personality and society.
What is the main element in diagnosing the problems of
unemployment along the lines of habit and addiction, especially when there are
no fitter attached its evolving consequences like the instances of Arthur
Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
Perhaps unemployment like some mid-life crisis assures us of
the nature of mass transitioning of the great humanity which gradually becomes
like gravity a memory stuck with daily exercise of process and passing moments
and like the Death of a Salesman, it forces to question the issue of habit and
the consequences of this habit from the very beginning.
We may notice that applying reverse psychology and reversal
on anything on other things, allows a sense of awareness and control of the
unemployed patient who when they realize what needs to be done, either rise to
the occasion or surrender to rules that guide and efficiently secure the rite
of passage, usually pay more attention to routines of the day that the efforts
at forcing the hands of employment and jobs. In a sense, it will be better and
psychologically helpful, to discourage a rush back to unemployment class or
search for jobs minutes or days after getting sacked. There are plenty of
chances to have this effectively done and have the newly fired get a job after
the first few weeks.
But the issue is that this is not always the case, even if
it is, between get the right job and working is a gap that is determined by
several factors.
The right prescription is a therapy with direct intent at
destroying that past by embracing the difference.
It may not seem competent to establish that the first
treatment a newly fired individual should pursue, either private or publicly is
getting over the last Job. Getting over the process is not so easy and when
this is done, the newly unemployed should see themselves as patient who could
self-medicate by realizing that things will not the same – not that it will
change for worse - does not mean that home is best study or hanging with
friends is a best treatment or being merry an attitude to seeking employment, rather
it only means that the state of mind should be altered with structures
gradually defaced one process after another by seeking to change a established
attitude to office and to work.
Somewhere between the past and the earliest beginning of the
animation for money and for jobs dwells the ‘fear that welcomes the acceptance’
that job seeking and offer is an acceptance that it is no longer in our hands.
It looks like the Great Depression was a psychological condition that meets the
‘Death of Salesman’ a series of paragraph in our lives, it is a Play perhaps
with no meaning than perhaps a ‘Hen House’ so utterly interfered that outcome
is partly lost.
The Great Depression with all hopes and struggles, with its
issues of sound money and stable money, with the initial effort being a current
problem of money and recovery process, and the later ‘stable money; its government
guarantee of further years. In here, as others argued elsewhere, we are not
overnight on the depression or day light by the cusp of early employment and
unemployment. We are getting there in the middle of somewhere at the beginning
of a treatment, which like recessions as symptoms of deeper problems, and like
decaying and ineffective solution, the recession no less than the age of the
Salesman deepens into depression.
The longer the aplomb and the shorter the resistance leading
to the descent into sickness and its treatment, equal effective it’s the deeper
recourse of world history.
In parallel stages of psychological decay and dementia, to
the issues of unemployment, we may mention that the earlier the treatment, the
greater the chance of healing. It is here that we can suggest that a meaning
exist for a careful return to this past by Arthur Miller whose Play delivered
the Compensation Act to FDR tables, that somehow, somewhere before we gradually
yield to fathoms of despairing, there is hope which I for one can preach begins
and ends perhaps with earliest therapy – at beginning not deep into the mire.
What unemployment compensation can procure these days is
based on the lessons involving old and aging America who by numbers and by
traditions of their work, may no longer fit into the process of a new job. For
if we conclude that the Salesman was part of the lessons attributable to the
new Deals (New Deals) with America we would forfeit the very candid lessons of
the frailty of human conditions, human ineluctable and its limits are best
explained by the job description.
But this is not psychology, rather new and reasonable ways
of seeing unemployment.
Perhaps the best to introduce sensitive subject to compare
the reality of getting a new job along the lines of the… Long term unemployment
is perhaps relative to a drug addiction than drug overdose, a process where the
victim struggles against a habit than leniency to stagger on imagination, or a
victim is perhaps driven by something other than themselves – lack motivation
or being motivated -, perhaps with tendencies of returning to that past and
that hope of returning to the market and labor force gives way to other issue
competing for our attention.
Drug overdose are periods between the triumphalist effort at
achieving a process, the high hope and tedious process involved in such
exercises and the descent like ether into despair. But gradually, like waking
thoughts and new reality concomitant with break of day, the unemployed patient
embraces the facts that are not part of the society.
In all, we can suggest that the ether of alcohol dissipates
and with it the illusion of confidence, hovering above are the questions of
unemployment, at the background it still lingers. The victim is hardly aware of
the time which from age and from day is no longer at ease with him or her, like
Alzheimer the patient is stuck in the past always.
And from that past he occasionally returns to reality with
fleeting moments of euphoria which may or may not hold meaning. FOR
several occasions there is the temptation to blend in, and when public
perception promotes an understanding that a job looker or newly working man or
woman has new and effective reality.
In the place of workshops for jobs in any society at the
beginning, we can suggest that the long term treatment is no less comparable to
drugs and alcohol addiction and treatment, and in terms of unemployment and
recovery process should come first. The pleasure principles need not be kept
aside in dealing with this objects and should not be drown or smothered out,
which in keeping to Freud and his compeers are areas of human dialectical that
must be broached and surpassed leading to the uncomfortable discusses of one’s
past, more than these areas, are perhaps the deep troubles that bothers and
hinders a healthy grow-psychology.
It leads somewhere between a complex and a standing, for
instance, the process of unemployment in the first few weeks do not hit the
newly sacked and fired from office as a problem of sickness based on habit. For
this reason other than the matters arising from other factors, the patient or
the newly unemployed is compelled by personal habits and responsibilities to
press forth with elegance and determination in search of jobs, seeking to
bounce back gradually and grudgingly learning something it is not easy and
experiencing bouts of personal doubts.
This process is expected to lead to something more lethal,
for instance, t issue of acceptance and estimate for monetary duration and
compensation. This is a vicious trap; perhaps a vicious circle that experience
tells us should be avoided.
Their minds quickly revolve around the issues of survival
which is not the first motivation towards recovery and snagging a job, or can
we place the idea of late recovery as a process equal to the final solutions of
any patient. We are not attempting to throw additional light on Freud and his
compeers of how a patient with severe psychological processes can….
II
In the previous encounter I argued carefully…..Perhaps, the
French man, Roland BARTHES, may have be the better man to narrate the
comparison between unemployment and the apoplectic condition of drug addiction.
These two disciplines are questions of habit and mental recovery saving that
unemployment leads to social and financial imperative and with less urgency in
physical treatment, whereas drug addiction likes the problems of habit is very
urgent and visible.
I shall comment that Roland Barthes is one of my favorite
commentators on human society and culture, and one of the people who made it
seem uneasy for us to forgo our signs and signatory in societies of all
respect.
One case for long term unemployed is the Confession of the
Opium Eater according to Thomas De Quincey, who grappled the descent from
‘Pains…’ and ephedra of dementia as it by imagination you are in charge where
even in the least of all, all is perhaps lost. And here, quoted from popular
sources and for our ears…."The sense of space, and in the end, the sense
of time, was both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes…were exhibited in
proportions, so vast, as the bodily eye is not fitted to conceive. Space
swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. “
This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast
expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one
night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in
that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human
experience."
Thomas De Quincey…."Some of these rambles led me to
great distances; for an opium-eater is too happy to observe the motions of
time. And sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical
principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a
north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and headlands I
had doubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly upon such knotty problems of
alleys, such enigmatical entries, and such sphinx's riddles of streets without
thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the audacity of porters, and
confound the intellects of hackney-coachmen."
The hope implodes after the initial revelations of the
process concerning inactivity of the unemployed towards even the least
prescriptions of Wakke and Lazerfield, an injurious allegation occlusion that
is hardly the case since it is only the case from his logical analysis. What it
means is that for proscription retained in the process and in this analogy of
Wakke and Lazerfield, in not a onetime event, rather we can distinguish between
the phases of the struggle and resistance leading to new development of the
people and cultures. The explanation deepens with disappointment especially
after the first acts are performed and degrees of claims battered or
presentations misfired on.
I cite in this case, B.F Skinner’s ‘behavioral modification’
et al, his ‘therapy technique’ pertain perhaps to habit, perhaps in addition to
Albert Bandura comments, that “learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to
mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own
actions to inform their what to do”, we consider the issues of the persons of
interest with a background perhaps on Thomas Quincey and his paranoid
delusions, which is important in this case since they did not occur naturally
or through the impact of any sickness.
It was external and based on other issues taking place in
human body, that…. "Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts
of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for 'the pangs
that tempt the spirit to rebel,' bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium!
that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the
guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed
pure of blood...."
The imprecations of and high extreme examples of
Quincey…such dark embrace hardly justifies the comparative with long term
unemployment, but unlike the addiction, we consider…..
Is there pleasure in Opium one may ask? Perhaps like some
author once mentioned ‘that there is pleasure sure in been mad which the madman
knows’, but we alight on a certain prolegomena of an inevitable from a long
term addiction and drugs, perhaps a descent into a different side entrapped by
visions of enduring tomorrow when this is only light at the dark and deepening
crisis of our state of mind, we return to it ever so slightly ever so
compulsively.
Why? It seems that from beginning or some middle of some
discuss we are petrified of something, perhaps an illusion that for instance
that God does not exist in the way we conceive it, or that our body has its
limits or that our Government cannot really protect us – all of the time – or
that the Court is riddled with errors, or that our parents are not omnipotent
or omniscient, this wry and well treated assumption and acceptances in
Psychology applies in sociology and from all asunder, we may mention that these
courageous questions of evolving human psychology places us at the middle of it
all, we return to a habit because by nature human beings are good.
The Chief opponent and easily way out of the ineluctable is
doing differently and perhaps misleadingly and from major eponyms of there are
more than a fair share of evil damaging the good.
From Sigmund Freud we praise Illusion at least in parallel
with the Future of Illusion, perhaps what happens after smoking joints of a fag
and alcohol that blocks the Dopamine or other drugs, we may experience the
feeling of easiness, a temporary uneasiness with the brain and delay in its
release time, leading to state of one’s world, temporarily leaving the
individual worse than he or she found themselves.
Perhaps Sigmund Freud’s ‘Beyond Pleasure Principle’ may
serve to explain why African Americans failed to capitalize on some of the
doors opened by Americans or why for instance the minority business exercises
did not have a staying power in African American societies. According to Freud
when dealing with patient for instance with a different experience, we may
suggest…that the “…Patient…is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a
contemporary experiment….” that, “The Physician cannot as a rule spare his
patient this phase of the treatment. He must get him to re-experience some
portion of his forgotten life, but must see to it, on the other hand, that the
Patient retains some degree of aloofness which will enable him, in spite of
everything, to recognize that what appear to be reality is in fact only a
reflection of forgotten past.” (XVIII. 18-19).
But this is not always the case – not often the case - the
past can equally be part of the obstacle holding a process. For a fact that the
only variously rewarding experience, from that past is the good from the
struggle especially the struggles in the good and also the bad….
‘Human beings cannot truly grasp the nature of certain
reality’ credited to Sigmund Freud, but primitive conception of the mind is the
unconscious self-serving ‘law of preservation’, that remains hidden and
inaccessible saving for eagerness to justify one’s action through the limited
options; Habeas, Certiori, mandamus, especially from self-processed (Pro Se) a
parallel of complex ‘Carl Jung’. ….The mirror image, the faith in the complex
that is already in decay……
Functionality of the mind therefore takes a different
pathways when it enters the orbit of daily living, that there are occasions of
the decay in the mind, product perhaps of habits decay grudgingly, perhaps
there are problems of assurance and issue of confidence which from all accounts
the posture of having only one thing in mind becomes the chief element of a
compulsory existence. In a sense, the measure on measure of mid-life crisis for
men begins and ends with a process of new employment, no less a matter of habit
than the culture of justifying once whole existence when as they argue, a man
or woman looks back and observes that his or her years are behind them and
that…
We look at the blemish of upper room psychology which the
English consider ‘keeping up appearances’ but for those lacking the skills for
the instruments, they are reduced to spectatorship and to the long rewards that
welcomes acceptance. In essence many psychologists attempt to breach this
hidden crisis in our mind and allow us to air them out publicly.
But this prescription does not always meet the crisis, it leads
and lends backward to the past of a patient that when the comparative analysis
between a proven technique of the pleasure principle is used in recovery of
advanced psychological descent in depression, the process takes a different
turn and leads like French medicine and Eastern technique to laxative and long
term treatment of drug therapy. If it is used early enough, and by association
used in treating unemployment conditions which end differently.
We need not reach this forbidden part of our human
existence, we may achieve the best out of our patient, who must accept that the
constipation of habit is no less diabetic as the ability of the human body and
blood to treat it’s sugar problems.
The newly unemployed in the view of this author and perhaps
elsewhere, should accept the new condition as a sickness that needs urgent
attention, the understanding without the acceptance that these patients do
merit a second atmosphere and coming, they lead to need form of discursion that
their problem on time and not later, and not forced to learn new means of
achieving new jobs.
Such discussion of the jobs in group setting demarcate the
past from the present, the assistance from the government or job securities and
unemployment compensation would become secondary when these are well rehearsed.
This must be done at the very few days and weeks of the firing or sacking from
office or laid off for other reasons which does not explicate or even temporary
delineate on the patient but through deliberate or temporary dissociation from
work, the need to understand the problem is quite unique and useful in their
own ways.
III
The unemployed must be considered a different kind of
patient, sick from habit no less enduring as drugs no less compellingly. Even
if the discussion takes the same processes as Freud ‘pleasure principle’,
understanding that you were probably fired for a fault that is either yours or
not yours, at the beginning, helps the patient to put the past behind them or
her as quickly and reasonably as possible. During the opening days of therapy,
the patient may do better if they discuss some of the elements of the good
times at work and the best memories, which increases year after year or so
diminishes, perhaps leading to other things in life and dreams.
This type of therapy is easily a way of reassuring the
patient that obtaining a job is really not easy but the real issue is the onset
of late and destructive habit. Some recipe or healing and returning to the fore
of the issue can be used in narrating the story, but we may stating clearly
that the presence of these old forms and traditions of doing business with
unemployed people may always work and even the more logical steps are proven by
reason to be less effective.
Doctor Phil (Philip Calvin Mcgraw; 2006) for instance
narrated in his Love Smart that in choosing a mate, it was
advisable to look at the records of such an individual, with due respect to his
personal conduct and attitude towards their possession, jobs, previous
relationship and perhaps living accommodation. This has a correlation to the
unemployed. Some degree of longevity and keeping with possessions exfoliates on
the chaser’s behavior towards the female or the chooser’s interest in the male.
While it is not wrong to look at these incentives mentioned by Dr. Phil in
chasing a possible mate, none of these items really influence the decision of
either party in real life.
In fact, it may even to serve as a paradox for placing some
faith and misplacing doubts in the relationship, especially for the women. Case
in point for psychologist, it’s the natural reasons why women prefer bad boys
or bad guys than the good ones, vice versa the good men. The explanation may be
based on what we can understand as trial by circumstance that the strong characters
are usually hurt and harmed in relationship due to conservatory alternative to
life, and with emotions missed with a sense of moral right, they try to fight
back and end up being entrapped in the exercise than quit the process.
This irrationality of human psychology is not cured with
lengthy reason, you have to try to dissuade the patient – the estranged male or
female – from feeling that time cures all, or that she or he may have been
injured or involved in abusive relationship. The patient need to be
reminded of their own possible replacement, for instance the possibility that
the younger generation are looking to replace him or her, and must therefore be
weary of their own lapses from lack of utility which is altogether worth
little.
It is only then can the so called estranged and entrapped
partner force him or her to ameliorate from the advice the whole essence of
relationship and attempt to parallel their won inevitable decline to the demise
of the object of their affection or trap.
For unemployed people, we should disabuse our minds sharing
their need to part of the group or their need to get a new job, but the
relevancy of being such and such a person is reducible to the next and capable
generation. In reality this unemployed patient is not doing anything wrong, and
the rest of them are not guilty of some problem and it is not probably their
fault or could well be.
As such preaching “get a job” is not a solution, but
interesting questions such as what areas of work are you interest in?, it may send
the patient from day 1 to the interesting gates of understanding what is
lacking. In fact such a statement ‘get a job’ or ‘why don’t you get a job’
gives the preacher reasons to believe they are doing better when they may just
be struggling like the unemployed.
The patient must not resist this
rebuking but must convert it for a better purpose, for if they try to add
additional material to resume, edit and do something for work. Some Cities have
programs of achieving this process but most of time; Jobs are gifted to you,
where you grew up its more important. Such effort usually land you the job when
taken in good faith but above all, it discourages further teasing and rebuking
which people get off with.
We are yet to consider the scar of public disrepute, perhaps
the odor of those seeking help through Welfare or Social Security or those
diseased by circumstances of their age; leprosy, HIV, so dismembered limb by
limb in Society that they are left with no locomotives to continue. Their job
situation is no more demanding than those struggling from immigration papers,
and no less meaningful than qualified workers in their threshold of labor
sandwiched in their specialist industries with very little pay and job
security.
Pause for a moment and find yourself removed from human
dialectic and place yourself in a kidnapped territory with increases opulence
to danger with more than fair chance of not being heard and the Judge that has
the wherewithal to toss and play with your complaint.
Perhaps you are recognized in the first day on recognition
and come early and eager, early to understand that the you have a longer case
awaiting the small and glossary dismissal of your allegations – meanwhile you
are unemployed since criminal charges are still dangling and you are facing a
split in the family over other allegations and for nearly half of your life you
have been a business manager and in U.S self-employed with no compensation. The
first man or woman might make it out of the jail after years on incarceration
which still happens in US only to be confined to….
For people with some income from the state unemployment, it
was possible to survive these stages but during a depression like 2008, with
the confiscation of one’s sources of living, or a situation where you have your
legs and private property decapitated during a Boston Marathon, only those
whose legs were saved during the explosion may understand the irony of legal
pursuit of wages with or without attorney, attorney’s for even the least
benefit of law, especially for those who are lingering and staggering to the
Court house seeking the Court to intervene. Their unemployment cases for all it
intent of purposes are within the perishing of more academic exercises…..
What is the opportunity cost of protecting and promoting a
healing process in later stages of life, that a healing process that is likely
occur at the beginning…..The highest efforts it seems to the rest of us should
be placed on the earliest cases of unemployment, when for instance an indigene,
or private, has lost his or her jobs. Perhaps not through the long and tedious
job hunting exercises or the exercises or the exercises this is leading
somewhere.
What bothers the minds is how the conditions of unemployment
end up changing the lives of those who pursue it differently, perhaps for good
and perhaps for ill, yet in all, the effort and the support which it’s
necessary beside the patronage situation that fetched half the jobs are vested
with different interest, the Patient is gradually his or her inner cycles and
lack a domino, the cards gradually unpack.
Perhaps we may see the stars lined into existence for these
folks but then the question of perception being unemployed and not having
something to do leads to new levels of reality in a society of ownership where
men and women divide and conquer for the rights to exist and the jobs however
burnish and promising it’s not readily the whole reality.
With time, the few of them who couldn't redefine their
images end up doing odd jobs for what is worth. The temptation to do away with
this theme of generous bargaining ends elsewhere, the theme continues
elsewhere. How well Craigslist, Indeed, Careerbulider, Employment Guide,
Snagajob, newspapers; daily newspapers, Green Sheet, can provide.
It does happen that it will take a community and perhaps a
while for any such expectations to be met at a shortest possible level. It will
be impossible to ignore that we cannot under circumstance expect this miniature
sense of goodwill to continue day after day without sinking into abuses. With
the desires to draw their lines enduring distinction and begin the circle of
descent by making up their own time or being in perpetual obeisance of other’s
peoples rules.
Such rules builds as much as it destroys, opens as much as
it bars, and when Felonies are added to the process, the outcomes are
suppressed phantoms of despair which cast lurid interest in many saving those
who have been there.
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