I pray that everything works out for you and your family. I am a 60-year old lady living in Washington DC. I was laid off my food Services job . I worked for this same company for 25-years from 04-1987 to 06-2012. I have a plyed for jobs . But never hear back. I am living off unemployment. God Bless you. Stay in pray.

[...] Today in the fourth part of my series on unemployment, I look at workers over 50. Sheila Cooper said she’s just looking for a receptionist or some other administrative job. “I just want a job that I can go to every day and earn a paycheck,” she said in a video for the Over 50 and Out of Work project. [...]

Dear Sheila, You appear to be such an amiable person....what really upsets me is when you tell that you were escorted out of your workplace, as a piece of refuse so to speak.How come that there is no outright anger expressed. It all conveys an impression of powerless compliance with an in itself totally immoral dehumanized working environment .Sickening from my perspective, but probably an unassailable symptom of human commodification. Gerard Stroy, 53 years , Netherlands.

And your wishes are what we are all fighting for! You & all like you are in my prayers daily.

Dear Sheila, I will pray for you and your family to recover from these job losses. You seem to have a dear spirit and a lovely personality. If you lived near me, I'd invite you over for a cup of tea. It shocks me that so many nice, hardworking people are suffering from job loss right now. My husband and I have been through a corporate down-sizing and understand what you are going through. Moving to a smaller home in the country helped us cut down on our costs. Many unexpected blessings have come our way in the 8 years since my husband was laid off including two part time jobs for me that each lasted two years. I hope good things like that will happen for you also. I also hope you have help with your health insurance somehow. God bless you. - K. Rostad