Just so you know: Nagging your friend "Have you got a job" is kinda awkward; awkward like asking someone "Don't you have kids" "Aren't you married yet". Yes, it can be disheartening & depressing! For them telling you "No" every time you throw up such question at them can predispose them to think they are failures, and unknowingly lead them into despair. You can never wish a difficult moment away with your nagging, it takes proactive sets to draw up a solution. If it's truly your intention to show you care via that, then I say the approach is a misplaced priority you must set right. It is sheer ignorance adding insult to their injury in the name of showing care. I consider it helping your friend with job adverts, career advice, networks, referrals or CV review far more reasonable than your incessant misnomer question. What does doing that mean to them? It tells them as much job position you prescribe to them, the more they beli...

It is true. You should thank those who say 'No' to you, for they only teach you how to do it yourself. Being conditioned to think you always have someone to help you out does more harm than good. It doesn't only weaken your cerebral capacity to think, diminish your creativity but it also ensures the inferiority complex. I reached out a reckoned force on Twitter for an answer to a question that has bothered me. Waited for days but got no reply from him to the reason best known to him. I know the hard feeling and worrying about it won't provide me the needed answers, thus I quickly form a partnership with the search engine. Our partnership was wow. Got more than what I expected/wanted. I was thought struck and said to myself, even if the Twitter guy had answered my question, he could not have given a more detailed answer than what my online pal did. But you will wonder, why I didn't use the search engine in the first place; this leads to another harm of dep...