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A Tall Glass of Juice: What I Learned During a Month of Being Jobless
Almost seven years after graduation, I experienced the most terrifying one month in my professional life. I was a bum for more than 30 days, with no savings. I just got married last December. In January I was ecstatic to go back to work after our holiday honeymoon in the province. I was doing a Sales cum Brand Management job for a furniture importer in the Philippines. I was earning well, salary + commission which would sometimes shoot up twice as much as my monthly salary. But since the wedding in the province cost me and my husband a lot, we weren’t able to save for the rainy days. And so,…