At the Job Clinic

ANXIETY… ANGER. . . LOSS. . . DISILLUSIONMENT. . . CONFLICT. . . CONFUSION. . . . SHAME. . . . The dark words, in tall letters on a large pad mounted on an easel, were being taken down with a felt-tip marker by a
short, dapper man with an unflappable demeanor. He paused, facing his audience of thirty-five academics. “Any other words for the feelings associated with job hunting?” “Would despair be too strong?” asked a woman. Sympathetic murmurings of “...