Unemployed and Trying Stories; Why Bother?
November 4, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized
We would like to thank you all for your unemployed and trying stories. We encourage you to send us emails with your stories! Please vote on the Unemployment Benefits Extension poll as well!
- I lost my job in January of 2007. I have been looking for work since. I apply for 5-10 jobs per week. I have been on 3 interviews this year. One was as a low level supervisor for an insurance company processing claims. It was a supervisor job that ran a 4 person department. There were 700 applicants, and they did preliminary interviews on 35 people. I was the oldest person in my interview group, and did not get a call back. One gentleman in the interview group and I chatted after the session and his qualifications for this low level job was that he recently was a regional manager for a malpractice insurance company. He was roughly 4 levels of management above the person hiring for this one! Who do you think they were going to hire?
I have depleted my savings, lost my home, they would like to repo my cars if they could find me, and my UI benefits ran out the last week of August. I have been selling my personal belongings on craigslist to put food on the tale and gas in my tank. I live in a 1988 RV in someone’s driveway and I cannot come up with the 300.00 I need to pay him this month for my space rent. These Republican Senators are playing games while real Americans are suffering. Honestly I feel like jumping off a bridge most days. It is incredibly exhausting to struggle daily to get enough money to be able to go to the store and buy milk and bread. Do you know how depressing it is to look around your home and pull your SHOES out of the closet and list them on craigslist for 10.00? I WANT a job. I NEED a job. There are just none to be had around here. I am applying for things I never thought I would have taken in the past. I have a college education and I am thinking about a fry cook position. Trouble is I don’t have the year’s experience flipping burgers they require. I do not know how much longer I can go on.
Signed desperate in Seattle
- This just does not make any sense. I will waste my time and tell you I’m pissed and everyone is suffering. (blah blah blah) But that does not matter. We will all have to sit back and watch the bull crap. I am talking about the democrat and republican show that goes on every time the people need something done. these butt heads (mainly republicans) need to be shoved out of these seats of power, knocked off their high horse, voted out of office !!! Do any of these people know what it’s like to have your gas shut off, having to heat water on a hot plate just to wash clothes, dishes, or themselves? Or getting your lights shut off? How about getting evicted ? I doubt it!!! They all sit back and talk about the hundreds of thousands that will lose their benefits at the end of the year. WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ALREADY HAVE LOST THERE BENEFITS ?????????????????? It is very simple, they just don’t care. I’ve got one question for you. What the hell does a first time home buyer tax credit have to do with people who can barely afford to stay in the houses that they are in now ?? I’m not stupid. I know that amendments get tied to a lot of bills. But to make the American people wait, while you childish, uncaring, heartless, clueless individuals argue over this, is irresponsible. The people need this help now, and we may need more help after this !! I’m telling you one thing right now, I have got my list of republicans who chose to do nothing but argue instead of helping the people of this country, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that they do not get voted for again !!!! someone please write me back at WTERRELL74@AOL.COM
UPDATE: We have had an amazing response to this issue! If you would like to write an article to those in Washington as to why YOU think unemployment benefits should be extended please email them to jwojdylo@subprimeblogger.com. If your article is free of profanity and any direct insults we will be more than happy to post it here on Unemployed and Trying so you can send the link to anyone you choose.
Author: Jesse Wojdylo
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