A hard time!

Miriam is unemployed! She is a 39-year-old woman who has lost her job. The worst part of this serious problem is always to admit we are jobless.
This situation was unexpected to her because she thought she had a lifetime job. However when an economic crisis begins, unemployment always rises and this is why she lost the job: not because she wasn’t good at what she did but because her services to the company were made redundant - they weren’t necessary anymore.
At first she felt very upset and went home feeling the most miserable creature on Earth but after a few days she realized that her job wasn’t needed but she could still be useful. There was no reason for her to lose her self-confidence: she still had her qualifications and skills and she knew she was a good professional. Her husband and children also played a very important role in helping her recover from depression and sadness.
She has been unemployed for three years. She knew it wasn't going to be easy to find another job but she has never thought it was going to be so difficult. She has already had a great number of interviews but she still hasn't got a job and she would like to know why. She believes she is just as good, if not better, as some men that have applied for the same jobs or the girl that was admitted to the bank even though she had less experience than her. So what is the problem? In what kind of society do we live now?
Every morning, after her children went to school, the feeling of loneliness and emptiness was hard to bear. So she has been working with a voluntary organisation for the last months and she has been using her free time to help those people whose problems are much more serious than hers. On the one hand being a volunteer makes her feel useful to society and on the other hand now she doesn't feel embarrassed when she meets friends and they ask: "So what are you doing now?"