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So I need some advice. I have been unemployed for a year (and a couple months). My last job was extremely high stress (and a night job) and I quit after six months. At the same time I began to suffer from a bout of severe depression (thank god for my mother).

I am finally doing better and need to get a job. I have a Bachelor’s in Education but (as much of a waste as it is) I do not want to teach (especially since I have gone 3 years without a teaching job since I got my degree). I am going to start looking for a job next week (I have started looking on the internet).

But I am very worried about my gaps in unemployment and getting back into the workforce. I know many employers ask about this and I don’t know what to say. I don’t know want them to think I am fickle or “crazy” because of the stigma of things like depression.

Any advice in dealing with this situation?

have you been doing anything at all that could be construed as work in the meantime? For example if you sold craft commissions (which is what I did when I was unemployed) you can fancy that up and make yourself sound very entrepreneurial on a job app. Or you could say that you were a homemaker; there are a lot of people who take time off from work to take care of the house while the person/people they live with win the bread. Homemaking requires a lot of marketable skills (time management, attention to detail when cleaning, etc). It's all about how you spin it.

I mean, I baked. Cleaned. Dogsat. I don't really know if they count?

I sympathise, OP, I just dropped out of the teaching component of my degree & am in the same position as you (I have a BA under my belt, but that gets you zip these days). I don't have advice on the year off, though you could just say something like, "I took a year off for personal reasons". If you dogsat, that counts in that it's a skill, particularly if you were paid for it. You could go for the homemaker angle as above anon said, because that does require things like time management, discipline and, well, sheer persistence.

why did you get a bachelor's in education if you don't want to teach? is there something else that would be good for? idgi.

Because, like most of those kinds of degrees they don't get you out into the field until the last 2-3 semesters. And you don't do anything solo until your last semester. And by the time you realize 'Wow I really hate teaching' it is too late.

You could just say that you were out of work due to a medical issue and leave it at that. It's illegal for them to make you disclose what the issue is. (At least, that's true for the US.)

nayrt - That's true, but it doesn't really make a year off sound any better to prospective employers. :(

You could say it was for "family reasons", which might be anything from tending to a sick grandma to depression and nobody would know unless they're tactless enough to ask. Because as soon as it's not just "your own business" and you'd potentially involve other people's problems, people are pretty understanding when you say you can't, with a good conscience talk about it.

It's what I'm planning to say when I'm finally done with uni and people ask why it took me so long. And it wouldn't even be a lie.

Well, I explained the gaps in my employment as me leaving my job to care for my mother while she was undergoing chemo. It's not exactly accurate, but it's a subject that no interviewer wants to probe into with a thousand-foot pole. That's basically what you want, a personal situation that makes you look good but also deflects any further scrutiny, even if it's not totally true.

I'd also recommend doing some volunteer work until you get a proper job. It's easy to do, it's easy to find a placement, and it still counts as 'working'. I'm pretty sure that my volunteer work at a Red Cross thrift store gave me the edge I needed to get my current job (which is just retail, but eh).

Best of luck, OP, I know what you're going through.

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