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Beth Harrison | Unemployment – Blessing or Curse?
Author Guest / April 13, 2012

As a first-time romance novelist and a newbie blogger, I apologize in advance for not quite knowing how to approach my blog on Fresh Fiction. But I’ll start by thanking my Red Sage, my wonderful publisher, for taking a chance on CURSED. As I sat down to prepare my blog, I suffered the opposite of writer’s block. I had so many ideas jostling each other in my mind that I couldn’t seem to focus on just one. But then it hit me—with the force of a runaway train. Three years ago, I lost my job. I got laid off when a large hospital system acquired the hospital where I’d worked for 15 years. I became part of the huge pool of American workers pushing the unemployment rate into double digits for the first time since the dark days of the 1982 recession. I was without a job for about a year. And while it was terrifying to watch expenses pile up with nothing coming in, my twelve months of unemployment were the most liberating months of my life. I’ll never forget the day that my sister dared me to make good use of my enforced time off by doing something…