{"id":860643,"date":"2026-08-19T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:12:08","slug":"asking-eric-39-year-old-too-anxious-to-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860643\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Eric: 39-year-old too anxious to get a job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OVTWN6XQ2FFHHE5CZLLSLSUP7A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Eric: My longtime friend has a 39-year-old son who refuses to look for a job. His last job was seven years ago. His mother found the job for him, but his employer passed away. He is bright, likable, talented, good-looking and in great shape.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VBUA5BLHCZEPBHDSJM4DLT5JNY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">His excuses, to name a few: his father died 18 years ago; he has sleep anxiety disorder so he cannot get to job at the required start time; general anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Eric: My longtime friend has a 39-year-old son who refuses to look for a job. His last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-860643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}