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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
In the current job market, opportunities for young workers are scarce. This ABC News report examines why workers between the ages of 16 and 24 have such a hard time finding jobs. Susan Solovic offers advice to these job seekers, such as considering skilled labor or getting your foot in the door with a job beneath your skill set.
2) Parasite
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiance the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
Do too many people go to college? The belief that college is essential to reaching one's full potential is under fire. Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt, unemployment for those with bachelor's degrees is at an all-time high, and entrepreneurs like the founders of Microsoft and Facebook prove that extraordinary success is possible without graduating college. But recent studies show that college is economically beneficial even to those...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
Pub. Date
[2006], c2000
Language
English
Description
Buyouts, plant closings, mergers. They all come down to someone losing a job. This kind of loss affects everyone differently. This important program helps viewers see how losing a job often parallels the trauma experienced after a death. In both cases, individuals must go through a grieving process that includes working through various stages. We also learn strategies for finding the positive opportunities in this dramatic change that touches so many...
Author
Series
Elizabeth Parker mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
This video offers viewers tips and techniques to assist them in rebuilding their lives after a layoff. It provides clear and reassuring information on how to deal with the shock and emotions of sudden job loss, reassess finances and costs of living, use post-layoff "free time" to best advantage, shore up self-confidence and self-esteem, and see the potential disaster of being out of work as a springboard to positive life changes and new opportunities....
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Language
English
Description
Losing a job is one of the common denominators of life in America: everyone has lost one-or knows someone who did. How do people cope with this particular form of loss? This straight-talking program considers the concerns and feelings that people often experience after job loss. The six topics examined are the realities of losing a job, why people identify with their jobs, the different ways job loss affects people, understanding the emotions associated...
11) Suave patria
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
The story of two actors called Oscar and Arturo. Nobody wants to hire actors at pretending to be cops and robbers to gain fame and money. The two are dedicated to getting on a bus and "acting" out their roles, but they did not take into account that the police commander would try to stop them.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other"--
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], c2006
Language
English
Description
Although Payal's tenure as an analyst at a large investment bank was painfully short, her desire to succeed in the highly competitive world of finance remains undiminished. In this program, business coach Shaa Wasmund works to rebuild Payal's self-confidence while broadening her awareness of how her financial and people skills can be applied by putting her to work for two nonprofits: British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and Free@Last, a group...
14) Step brothers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brennan and Dale are two middle-aged loafers who are forced to live together when their parents get married. When their immature antics over TV privileges and personal property take their toll on their parents' marriage, the devious duo hatch a scheme to reunite the couple.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2013
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Studs Terkel published Working, an oral history of how people make a living and how they feel about what they do. In dialogue with Terkel's book, Not Working: The Pulse of the Great Recession travels the country from Orange County, California, to New York City to gather stories of people - hourly wage earners, salaried executives, and employees from every tax bracket in between - who have lost their jobs due to the recent economic downturn....
18) The big Lebowski
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski is pulled into the seedy underworld of criminal Los Angeles when two incompetent mobsters mistake him for an evil millionaire with the same name.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
En 32, Russell Green lo tiene todo: una esposa aturdidora, una hija amable de seis años, una carrera acertada como un ejecutivo publicitario y una casa expansiva en Charlotte. Él vive el sueño, y su matrimonio a Vivian fascinante es el centro de esto. Pero debajo de la superficie brillante de esta existencia perfecta, las líneas de defecto comienzan a aparecer ... y nadie está más sorprendido que Russ cuando él encuentra cada aspecto de la...
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