Hi! Well, I am from South Africa and the unemployment here is huge, huge, huge... But still I get the impression that people rate your success (or whatever!) in life by what you do. I absolutely hate that. There is no way that a job can define who a person really is. That is such a harsh way of judging people. And when you say you don't have a job, then mostly people tend to look so uneasy as if they don't know if they should feel sorry for you or think you're lazy and a burden on others. But people here are also very nosy, I think. It's as if everybody thinks it is their right to know everything about everybody else. Even if they don't know you well, they want to know what you do. And of course if you say: I can't work at the moment 'cos of psychiatric problems, they don't have any idea what to answer or where to look!