I’ve become the parent watching a teenager struggling to make friends at his new school, and I started realising this when his old school held a food fair one Saturday morning. He planned to meet up with his old primary school friends at the fair and was really excited and looking forward to seeing them,…
I lost my job on the 1st of July. The company shut down; it was nothing I did or didn’t do, just doors closing. And if you had told me a few weeks before that I would still be getting dressed when unemployed, still laying my clothes out over the chair in my room every…
I have been putting off writing this one for a while, which feels a bit ironic given how much I have also been putting off job hunting after retrenchment some days. But here we are, part two of this journey, so here is what job hunting after retrenchment has been like these days since I…