I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.
After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.
I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.