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Other shoes no longer simply drop; instead, we've settled in for an unending rain of footwear.
I haven't found decent work yet, we have a roommate who has only now started to really look for a job, and now Katie has been fired again. No reason was given. Time of employment : Almost a month.
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. I mean, tomorrow it's time for us both to carpool to the great state of Missouri and beg for unemployment insurance again. And since we have nothing else, anymore, it's back to looking for work in fast food, or whoever will hire us.
The great Goddamned American Dream in action, folks. No job security, poverty, and no escape.
What am I actually supposed to do about something like this? How am I supposed to feel? What's the answer to this problem? Huh? What are our real options? Keep getting fucked? I haven't been to the doctor in a decade! Or a dentist! We were supposed to be able to have health insurance! File for unemployment again! Whoo! That's what I want out of my fucking life. I went to college for this? I still owe over twenty thousand dollars! I was only able to save a thousand before I was unexpectedly fired for my last job with no notice. How am I supposed to save anything?
I grew up middle/lower middle class, got decent grades in high school. By all accounts, I'm reasonably intelligent. I worked in high school, and I worked summers in college. I graduated with decent marks, but by the time I graduated, my parents had divorced and were completely tapped out of savings at a time in their life when they probably should have been double earners and both kids out of the house. Instead, all of us ended up working the next thing to minimum wage jobs, and my dad barely managed to save the house. Now my parents are divorced, my dad collects debts and my mom works as an assistant manager at a hotel chain. My brother is a felon with a kid out of wedlock and sporadic work. Can't count on them for a lot of help, even if they're willing.
What kind of bullshit is this? The only thing I can do is keep trying, but someone keeps stealing my fucking bootstraps so tell me what I'm supposed to pull myself up by for God's sake.
I haven't found decent work yet, we have a roommate who has only now started to really look for a job, and now Katie has been fired again. No reason was given. Time of employment : Almost a month.
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. I mean, tomorrow it's time for us both to carpool to the great state of Missouri and beg for unemployment insurance again. And since we have nothing else, anymore, it's back to looking for work in fast food, or whoever will hire us.
The great Goddamned American Dream in action, folks. No job security, poverty, and no escape.
What am I actually supposed to do about something like this? How am I supposed to feel? What's the answer to this problem? Huh? What are our real options? Keep getting fucked? I haven't been to the doctor in a decade! Or a dentist! We were supposed to be able to have health insurance! File for unemployment again! Whoo! That's what I want out of my fucking life. I went to college for this? I still owe over twenty thousand dollars! I was only able to save a thousand before I was unexpectedly fired for my last job with no notice. How am I supposed to save anything?
I grew up middle/lower middle class, got decent grades in high school. By all accounts, I'm reasonably intelligent. I worked in high school, and I worked summers in college. I graduated with decent marks, but by the time I graduated, my parents had divorced and were completely tapped out of savings at a time in their life when they probably should have been double earners and both kids out of the house. Instead, all of us ended up working the next thing to minimum wage jobs, and my dad barely managed to save the house. Now my parents are divorced, my dad collects debts and my mom works as an assistant manager at a hotel chain. My brother is a felon with a kid out of wedlock and sporadic work. Can't count on them for a lot of help, even if they're willing.
What kind of bullshit is this? The only thing I can do is keep trying, but someone keeps stealing my fucking bootstraps so tell me what I'm supposed to pull myself up by for God's sake.
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