Losing his job eight years ago pushed Tosin Longe into a stretch of life he describes as close to unbearable. The Auchi Polytechnic graduate says the hardship began with unemployment and grew from there. He faced discrimination along the way, the kind that greets anyone whose CV carries a long unexplained gap. In an interview with The Punch, he said the pressure brought him to the point of contemplating suicide. Getting through that period, he recalls, meant holding on through years with no steady income and no clear way back. He is telling his story now as a picture of what joblessness can do to a person beyond the missing paycheck. His account puts a human face on unemployment in Nigeria, where one lost job can bend a life out of shape for a decade.