The Impact on the Individual

The Impact on the Individual

And the Society

Wayne A. Besaw

AIU Online

Introduction

I cannot pick just one of these topics unemployed, alcoholic, and drug addicted. I feel that these three topics are linked one to another. Granted not everybody becomes a drug addicted or an alcoholic, but it is the natural progression. When an unemployed person doesn’t pick themselves up and climb back on the preverbal horse, they can go down that road. When one has too much time on ones hands one can start doing stuff that they would not ordinarily do like drinking or doing drugs.

Unemployment not only impacts the individual but it also has a deep impact on the family and in turn it also has an impact on the society. Let us take a look at how it has an impact on the individual, when a person has a job they feel that they “are pulling their own weight”.

My Unemployed Thoughts

I’m watching my son go through the unemployment right now and yes he does drink something fierce. I see him being frustrated after going out and wasting gas looking for a job all day and coming back empty handed could make him upset. He can’t earn money so he can’t pay child support and his ex-wife is not letting him see his son, even thought the divorce papers don’t say anything about no child support no visitation. This makes him upset and even though drinking is not the answer that is what he does.

I learned this when I was younger, I have lost a few jobs in my life and you go from a person that doesn’t have to answer to anybody to someone that feels like they are a burden on other around you. I think it is a pride issue, I know my pride got in the way when I not only lost my job after my divorce but I lost my roof over my head as well. I had to make a hard choose as to what my next move has, did I go to a shelter or stay in my car, or did I swallow my pride and admit I need help. Yes I had friends that I could go to for help and I had helped them over the...