Ever wonder what it’s like to text Empower Work? Meet Dawn. Dawn was struggling with long-term unemployment for two years when she reached out to Empower Work for support. She is a caretaker, a mother, and now a CNA who found light at the end of the tunnel of a long and harrowing job search where she’d felt like she’d tried everything. Our writer, Mackenzie, met with Dawn to get a sense of what her job search was like, and what it was like to text Empower Work. 

After a conversation with a peer counselor, Kessie, a health care clinic manager, shared her experience with us about how she’d reached out when she didn’t know where else to turn. Recently, she contacted us with a follow up.

Empower Work user, Kessie, shares her story about a stressful situation at work. Kessie reached out to Empower Work’s text line when she didn’t know where else to turn.

Yoselin reached out to Empower Work because she was conflicted about a big career decision. She was offered a position at an organization she wanted to work at, but it was for a role that she had already done and outgrown. Yoselin was conflicted on whether to accept the position or to take on a new challenge.

I made a big mistake in how I handled a customer, and knew it was going to be a big deal.

I reached out to Empower Work because I’d hit a breaking point. I’d been dealing with a bunch of issues in my workplace for over a year including a demeaning, bullying manager. I took every action I could think of to try to change things for the better, but nothing helped.

Pregnant and unsure how that would impact my job search, I decided to stick it out. But when I returned from unpaid leave, it was worse.