Unemployed and Trying Stories; Why Bother?
November 4, 2009 · Posted in Unemployed and Trying Stories
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- 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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Well I am sitting here crying now after reading a posting on your website. We are all in the same boat now,,no matter what color we are or where we come from, we are doomed. I actually searched google
on ‘how to kill yourself’. Yes I know this is outlandish, but what am I to do now?
I got laid off last May, 3 months after having a total hysterectomy, at that time I of course lost my health insurance. I had and still do have post surgical issues that I cannot go to the doctors about. So one would think I really need for the health bill to pass ASAP. WRONG. I NEED A JOB TO LIVE!!! OR ATLEAST THE UI EXTENSION..I WOULD BEABLE TO MAINTAIN!!
My story is the same…my UI benefits ran out in August of this year, so that was the last time I made
a car payment, now the repo man is looking for me and my car..the thing is I may as well let them take it because the car insurance lapsed on Sept.18th, the registration is now suspended so I am afraid to drive the car now any way..not to mention it’s against the law..oh yeah it also won’t start because it needs a battery that I cannot buy..why am I holding on?? maybe because it’s pretty
I did manage to get one phone interview this year but then the lady wanted me to interview the very next day.almost 40 miles from my home? How was I going to get there? I couldn’t even bumb a ride because i didn’t have money to pay for gas.
Last month I to sold my dining set and my washer and dryer to pay most of the rent I owed for Sept.
Now I owe Oct. and Nov…thing about this is,,my rent is only $500!!! That is so wrong that I cannot afford to pay this little amount of rent..why is it so low..because in April I lost my real house and an acquaintance said I could rent a room in his nice house until I got it together..okay fine..house was in my same neighborhood, it was nice and clean..3wks in I find out he is on drugs, this put me over the edge, I packed up at 2am and left in my little SUV-sat in the drive way of my old house til morning..afraid in the dark..I found this little house in the sticks surrounded by goats..aka Atlanta suburbs..my electricity was cut off, I pawned my little bit of gold jewelry to get that back on but now it’s due again on 11/12/09..Like one of the other poster persons I will begin to start listing my stuff on good ole Craigslist to try and survive? I am totally alone and have honestly tried to figure out the best way for me to kill myself..I figure I would sell all of my things then I wouldn’t put family in the terrible position of having to go thru my stuff and get sad all over again..I would take enuff money to fly somewhere nobody knows me and kill myself so that in my family’s pshychy I’d be out of site out of mind,,oh of course I’d pay a funeral service in advance for my cremation…WHO THINKS LIKE THIS?
ME, I DO ..I am a 46 yr old single woman that grew up in lovely Saratoga NY. my 2 daughters are grown, I used to be a Property Manager last year, I used to have a little cleaning biz, yes I have a little free website,,no bites..and if I had any I can’t clean anyones home or business because I can’t buy supplies..I am only half azz eating because another friend that gets food stamps buys me a few groceries every month..and I could stand to lose a few pounds any way…HAHAHA
My daughter came over here this past Sunday to make sure I was still alive because no one had seen or heard from me in over 5days..I was trying to OD on fake tylenol PM..my only blessing right now is my landlord, he is really trying to be patient with me, he came and checked on me today because he to had not seen movement in my little house..thank the Lawrd for him..but how much longer is he going to put up with it..Why is this happening..I used to be the head of my family even though my kids are grown, I used to help them with their bills or car needing repair ..my grandaughter called me last week asking me if I could buy her a poster board for her school project..I WAS NOT ABLE..JUST WRONG..I CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS!!!
ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS..WHO THAT CAN RECTIFY OUR SITUATIONS IS READING WHAT WE WRITE..ARE WE MAKING EACH OTHER MORE MISERABLE IF WE ARE THE ONLY ONES READING ABOUT ‘US’?
TL IN ELLENWOOD GA
Tracy,
Things will improve, Tracy. I know it is painful because I have been where you are.
One day at a time, girl. Help in the form of UC to pay for living expenses should be available within the next month.
Tracy,
When my water was disconnected, I walked 2 blocks to the outdoor faucet of a public building and filled water jugs. I did this after 5pm when most of the office workers had left because I didn’t want to risk being told I could not take the water.
Lack of water is a major health risk, but none of the social service agencies I spoke with had a program to assist individuals who needed water.
On my first visit to a food bank I was turned down because I had not followed their protocol of first applying through a Salvation Army. All I had was a jar of peanut butter at home and I was very hungry and tired after having walked about a quarter mile in 90 degree temps.
That winter (northeast) my gas service was shut off . A neighbor gave me a small space heater. I sectioned off an area of about 6 x 6 in my living room with plastic and plugged in the space heater. I made a bed on the floor in that area. I survived the winter by heating just that little space.
When the water faucet at the public building was shut off for the winter, my very kind neighbor let me fill water jugs from his kitchen tap. I kept the jugs in the heated area of my living room to keep them from freezing (the remainder of the house was ice cold).
In January I started a telecommute job and worked from within that enclosed area. On the coldest days working at my desk wearing coat and gloves. Customers I talked to had no idea – they probably envisioned me sitting at a desk in a nice office . . .
By May, the company stopped doing business in my state, so I was layed off again. Fortunately, I had earned enough to restore the gas and water.
I’m receiving UC extended benefits now and working towards a degree in a new field. I have been placed on a program with the gas company that only requires a payment each month based on my reduced income.