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Working Strategies: Four options for easing job search pain By Amy Lindgren
 Posted:   04/26/2015 12:01:00 AM CDT 
 The good news is that the job market has been improving. The bad news? That kicked-in-the-stomach feeling you may be experiencing if you're not one of the people benefiting from the upturn. It's one thing to be unemployed when unemployment seems like the norm; it's entirely different when you feel like the last kid picked for the softball team. It's normal for me to see people who are hurting from a frustrated search, or from the job loss that led up to it. Pain is to be expected and it can even be helpful. But too much pain is a problem. It can morph into a psychic burden that threatens to stay with a person even into the next job. One way to know if you've slipped into this zone is by checking your inner monologue. Do you generally feel hopeless or hopeful about finding work? Have you slowed or stopped looking for work? Are you still looking, but with only half your attenti