How to Cope with Being an Unemployed Dad

This is a guest blog post by Aaron Steele, a 25 year old husband and father from Australia. A little while ago, Aaron lost my job and suddenly realized that he was overweight, broke, unemployed and had no real skills. Aaron decided that he was sick of the way his life was playing out and he wanted to make some serious and carefully planned changes. Aaron began The Lifestyle Overhaul as a means of documenting his journey from where he was to where he wanted to be: Fit and Healthy, Highly Skilled and Wealthy enough to spend all the time he wants with his kids. This is Aaron’s website: The Lifestyle Overhaul (www.thelifestyleoverhaul.com) which is about his quest as a young dad of 2 to improve his health, his finances and his payable skills. Aaron’s Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/Aaron-Steele... How to Cope with Being an Unemployed Dad I lost my job two weeks before our second child (who we appropriately called Faith) was born. It was one of the most difficult times our little family has ever had to endure. This was the 3rd time in 2 years that I had lost my job. I had only had the job for a few months and I had been absolutely loving it, which made the sudden redundancy even harder. One of the things that really hit me when it became apparent that we would be welcoming our new baby into the world without any sort of income was that I was failing to provide what I consider to be one of the most important functions as a father: to provide for my family. It was really difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that I was failing one my most important responsibilities. I would think to myself “What sort of dad can’t even provide for his children from the moment they are born?” I was torn between the joy of having a baby daughter, a little sister for our little boy, and the grief and anxiety of suddenly becoming unemployed in a very difficult job market. I would lay awake at night worrying about how we would make ends meet and how things would work out for us. I would stay awake at night stressing out because I was overweight, unemployed and broke and had very little in the way of marketable skills. I had worked in mostly unskilled […]

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