{"id":597829,"date":"2026-08-19T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:50:06","slug":"asking-eric-39-year-old-too-anxious-to-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597829\/","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":323283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-597829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}