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Among all the topics I had in my mind, I decided to choose unemployment to speak about, for the reason that it’s a very important issue nowadays.

I’ve been collecting information(*) about this topic, and I have read opinions and personal experiences, the same way I’ve read what psycologists say about this problem.

Some people think unemployment is an education issue and there isn’t a really good preparation or development of high technology. So, People are only left with the option to work at export processing zones. People also think that with advances in technology have been substituted the human labor.

But the real thing is that unemployment can have psychological consecuences. Some people don’t know how to face to be fired from a job. All of us get deppressed when we lose a job. A job is simply "the way a man changes his environment and his destiny".

“I feel like garbage, I’ve lost my job”.

“I lost my job and I can’t find another one”.

We don’t work only for living, but to achieve personal development. That’s why from the pshychological viewpoint, losing a job results a real misfortune, even though income is secured.

In his book Psychological impact of unemployment, Professor José Buendía delves into this issue beyond the statistics. He delves why is so destructive losing a job and he defends the application of social solutions beyond the subsidy, to relieve the psychological pain of unemployed people.

He also says that young people and adults respond to unemployment in different ways.

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(*) I compiled the information from the Internet, and then translated it.