What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

Ten Things We Can Do to Deal with
Our Feelings, When We Are
Unemployed
1. We can catch up on our sleep, even if it means we have to
take naps during the day because our attempt to sleep at
nighttime is, at the moment, a disaster. We tend to feel
depressed if we are short on our sleep, or our body is
otherwise run-down.
There are two states that can be easily confused:
First of all, the world never looks bright or happy to us
when we are very short on sleep.
Secondly, the world never looks bright or happy to us
when we are feeling depressed.
It is therefore easy to confuse the two feeling-states. Over
the years, I have seen many job-hunters who first thought
they were really depressed over their situation, later
discover they were really depressed just because they were
so tired. Or a bit of both. Anyway, sleep or nap, we often
turn into happier, more upbeat people, just by catching up
on our sleep. This can make us feel better—sometimes
much better.
2. There are other things that we can do to keep ourselves
more physically fit while unemployed. Job-hunters have
told me they found it important to:
get regular exercise, involving a daily walk;
drink plenty of water each day (this seems silly, but I
found out we tend to skip the water, and get dehydrated,
when we’re out of work);
eliminate sugar as much as possible from the diet;
take supplementary vitamins daily (no matter how many
doctors and nutritionists try to tell us that we already get