I'll Take Any Job That Comes My Way
I hate it. I never know if I can pay bills or feed myself on my dog. I don't sleep well and spend most of my time looking for a place to work. I have taken work cleaning out a closed Taco Bell, worki…
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I Never Knew It Would Be So Hard To Find A Job
It's quite hard being unemployed not knowing how your bills are going to get paid or something being turned off for lack of payment because there is no money for the bill. I am lucky to have family t…
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My Last Unemployment Check -- Then What?
These two years have been pretty much a roller coaster ride with bills being hidden under the carpet and stress levels reaching a high mark in my life. Depression has hit so hard I don't even know wh…
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Just Give an "Old Lady" a Chance to Prove Herself
It is VERY difficult! At near seventy years old the job market is not welcoming to an elder worker. According to many I should be retired. However, I have a child who is a Junior in college and the l…
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If You're Unemployed, You're on Your Own
It has been frightening, demoralizing, and demeaning. I despise filing applications via computer/e-mail. I despise the poor etiquette of not acknowledging applications or sending an automated form le…
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Desperate Single Mom
Frustrating, sad, feels like the world's on top of me. I have a anxiety disorder and it's very hard to cope with it. I work very hard to survive for me and my children. It's so hard not having a job …
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Being Unemployed Shows You Who Your True Friends Are
Unemployment isn't bad if you are receiving unemployment compensation. But if you are not receiving any income, as I have not received for over two years, it seems like it really does drive you crazy…
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Hundreds of Applicants for Every Job
I thought that I would be able to find work anywhere with a secretarial science degree, and especially with these many years of work experience. What I am finding is that there are hundreds of people…
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I Miss Being Part of a Team
My mistake was resigning. I wish I tested the waters before resigning. My temp assignment ended and I gave two weeks notices and offered to train someone else. They told me that they were not going t…
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Unemployed and Bullied by the Government
I held several related posts until the recession, then things got really sparse. Now I am bullied by the Government again, to take a job, any job, even a job which wouldn't meet the very basic outgoi…
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Unemployed and Watching Life Pass Me By
STRESSFULL!!!!!!! Not knowing how to provide for myself. I know now how people do crazy, unthinkable things! Well, life just flies by and you feel like you're the only one standing by, watching the w…
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Unemployed, with $100 To My Name
Two years later I'm still unemployed. I've done some interviews - some employers have contacted me to let me know I was unsuccessful and others didn't bother. Then 7 months later my mother died and I…
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I Am Not Used to Not Working
It's quite hard since I am not used to not working. I am in-between jobs for a year and few months now and sometimes it does get the best of me. Like someone who posted his story about this topic, I …
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Everything I Did Was Wrong
It's the worst. Not knowing where or if you will work again.I went back to school after I had my three kids,and it was all taken away by a spiteful person. I worry about our bills and have had to ask…
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Worthless Law Degreee
Stress is incredible. Sense of failure and regrets about not being perfect in the past. Desire to go back in time to do things better but the realization it is impossible to do so. Law degree is wort…
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