After a layoff, is it time to take off?
"Be a tourist in your own town" if you don't have the money to travel. "That's way, you can save money on accommodations."
Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York, plans to use Intrepid's package to travel to Africa and Europe for nearly a month. This is the second major trip he's taken since being laid off from a finance job in June. But Hagelstein says he's a "compulsive saver" and wants to make use of the free time while he has it.
"Time is something that you can never get back. You can always earn more money," he said. "I'm not getting any younger. ... This is an opportunity -- I feel -- of a lifetime."
The man from India ...He said he hadn't taken a substantial trip during the decade or so he worked in information technologies at LexisNexis, a database and information company.So he saw the layoff partly as a gift of free time. Plus, it helped him reconnect with his passion.
"If I could do anything I wanted to do in life, it would be to take the camera out and go out to talk to people and get stories," he said.
"If you recently lost your job and need to travel for an interview, we will take 50 percent off the price of a SkyRoll to help you arrive looking your best," the company says on its Web site. To get the discount, SkyRoll requires customers to e-mail the company a layoff notice.
Travel discounts like the one from Intrepid may be great for unemployed people who have hefty savings accounts or large severance packages, but the program also could prey on the unemployed, said Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado.
The cost of a big trip "could be lunch money for somebody for the next six months," she said. Hughes tells her clients who are laid off they need to come up with a career plan -- and quickly -- because the job market is so competitive.
If a person truly has a thick enough checkbook to afford a post-layoff vacation, Hughes said she would tell the person to send out plenty of resumes before hitting the beach.
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Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York, plans to use Intrepid's package to travel to Africa and Europe for nearly a month. This is the second major trip he's taken since being laid off from a finance job in June. But Hagelstein says he's a "compulsive saver" and wants to make use of the free time while he has it.
"Time is something that you can never get back. You can always earn more money," he said. "I'm not getting any younger. ... This is an opportunity -- I feel -- of a lifetime."
The man from India ...He said he hadn't taken a substantial trip during the decade or so he worked in information technologies at LexisNexis, a database and information company.So he saw the layoff partly as a gift of free time. Plus, it helped him reconnect with his passion.
"If I could do anything I wanted to do in life, it would be to take the camera out and go out to talk to people and get stories," he said.
"If you recently lost your job and need to travel for an interview, we will take 50 percent off the price of a SkyRoll to help you arrive looking your best," the company says on its Web site. To get the discount, SkyRoll requires customers to e-mail the company a layoff notice.
Travel discounts like the one from Intrepid may be great for unemployed people who have hefty savings accounts or large severance packages, but the program also could prey on the unemployed, said Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado.
The cost of a big trip "could be lunch money for somebody for the next six months," she said. Hughes tells her clients who are laid off they need to come up with a career plan -- and quickly -- because the job market is so competitive.
If a person truly has a thick enough checkbook to afford a post-layoff vacation, Hughes said she would tell the person to send out plenty of resumes before hitting the beach.
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