Dot-Commers Log Onto Reality, Virtually

In “Jobless but Busy, Busy, Busy” (Aug. 7), on the ex-dot-commers, ex-techies and Silicon Valley’s once-employed, I read two sentences that at first made me stop reading and pause for a moment of silence as the meaning of those statements impressed themselves on my mind. Sad as it is, my next response was one of laughing out loud. Laughing out loud in disbelief. My goodness, what a culture we’ve bred!

Therapist Joan DiFuria says, “They’re asking, ‘Will I be depressed if I can’t do what I want to do? What do I want to do?’ It’s really hard for a lot of these people to tolerate waiting and anxiety because they’ve been so distracted in so many ways by their jobs.”

“These young people have never gone through a downturn of any kind, and they’re just in shock,” career counselor Kathye Citron says. “Just traumatized.”

My personal words of enlightenment and encouragement for the recently humbled: Wake up, bright eyes, and welcome to reality. And don’t you worry none, ‘cause most of us here do just fine.

Arthur Saginian

Saugus

It’s good to know that those smart, jobless dot-bombed people are doing good community work while they wait for jobs. Does it dawn on them that preschools can never get enough good teachers for young children? Moms can never find enough baby sitters to help them out? Schools need all the people they can get with provisional credentials to teach the kids?

Bette Simons

Sherman Oaks