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    Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed: TEN REMINDERS
    Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed: TEN REMINDERS
    Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed: TEN REMINDERS
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    Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed: TEN REMINDERS

    By Pamela Q. Fernandes

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    Have you lost your job or are out of work? Are you wondering how God let this happen to you? Have you been questioning your faith? In Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed, Dr. Pamela Q. Fernandes talks about staying optimistic as a Christian.
    A practicing doctor, Pamela tells how she went from the wilderness of unemployment to her promised land. Through scripture, anecdotes, and dozens of practical tips, she shows the way to anyone who has lost their job and is struggling to keep the faith. In these pages you'll discover:
    Why you shouldn't fear job loss
    How to keep a 'lit lamp'
    The need for prayer
    How to stay on the sunny side of unemployment
    Unemployment is growing. If you are a Christian, jostling with your faith through this trying time, this book is for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPamela Q. Fernandes
    Release dateSep 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386139782
    Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed: TEN REMINDERS
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    Pamela Q. Fernandes

    Pamela Q. Fernandes is a doctor, author, and medical writer. She hosts The Christian Circle Podcast and plays the piano. When she's not writing or practicing medicine, she's baking or traveling the world. She started as an author with Seoul-Mates and since then has written many romances, UNDER A SCOTTISH SKY, CINDERS OF CASTLEREA & other short stories. Pamela writes romance, speculative fiction, women's fiction, and Christian non-fiction.

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      Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed - Pamela Q. Fernandes

      INTRODUCTION

      LET ME START BY SAYING that unemployment is like a heavy cross that weighs you down. People may call it a phase, an episode, they may brush it aside, or laugh it away. But unemployment is a big deal, one that many folks go through. It’s a place where the winds of God’s winter blow strong.

      At the time of writing this book, the unemployment rate in the US is 5% and in India is 4.9%. Many might ask, ‘Pam, what is 5%? It’s just a statistic. That number is so small.’ But when you are one of the 5%, it’s no longer a statistic. For an unemployed person, that statistic is 100%. You’re not part of the five percent crowd, for you, unemployment is one hundred percent.

      I’d like to tell you what I went through as I ate my bread of adversity, so that you may know that this isn’t some artsy-fartsy advice. In September 2007, I graduated from a good university in the Philippines. I was twenty-one at the time. I won’t tell you what I studied, at the moment. I returned joyfully to India (citizen) to register for an exam that sits twice a year— a registration exam to be able to find a job.  After six months of diligent preparation, I took the exam and passed. But there was a hiccup. The government hadn’t signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for graduates from the Philippines, so getting my provisional registration was going to take time. I waited and waited. Days, weeks, and months passed.

      In the meantime, I took up a job as a part-time writer, in the hope, that if ever I did get registered, I’d have to drop it in a hurry to start preparing for my permanent registration. I made very little money. Many times after the work was completed, I was never paid. My parents found it difficult to believe, that even with a degree I couldn’t get a job. Nosy neighbors kept asking, relatives assumed I was a lazy faker, everyone I met had tons of advice, the ‘Shoulda, coulda, woulda’ kind, but nothing concrete. 

      One and a half year later, I got my provisional number, it took another six months of paperwork for me to get an externship where I had to volunteer at a government institution for a year, demonstrating my skills to get my permanent registration number.

      By the time I finished all this, keep in mind it was 2010 Three years since I graduated. Three long years before I could complete my stipulated yearlong mandatory externship. Following that the government with all its bureaucracy thought I hadn’t wasted enough time already, so they took another two years to hand me a permanent registration number.

      I was twenty-five when I could get finally get a decent job. Five of the best years of my life were lost. My original plans of applying for a master's was delayed and I didn’t have the finances to support myself. My parents who worked abroad were generous but skeptical.

      I did what every other unemployed person does, holed myself in our flat, living like a hermit, no television, no take-outs. I stopped living, hoping that after applying at various places, a phone call, an email or something would come up. I went to interviews, where I was asked millions of questions and then turned away due to little experience, or because I had studied abroad. Yes, prejudice exists, in more ways than you can imagine. At some places, I was humiliated because I had taken up writing instead of the actual work I trained for. I did charity work for free, spent lots of nights crying into my pillow, lonely and waiting for a phone call, any call to come through. At times I felt like an animal at the circus, performing monkey tricks without the applause.

      One day I did find a

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