Life is still going nowhere...

[SamuelKhan]

Well...I'm still in purgatory.

I joined this place 4 years ago after a falling out of another forum where the attacks got too personal. I decided that I would join a forum that was more my persuasion (kinky people who had a thing for feet, bondage, and tickling).

I'm not going to get to play or partake in this lifestyle. I'm still dogged by debt, and the weakening prospects of me getting to use my education hang over me. I had a "client" that promised me to pay me X amount of dollars to do design, then when I mentioned that I needed to get into writing...you know the rest.
Seven interviews, 0 jobs. I can't move.

My two jobs have done nothing to relieve the debt. I am really in trouble.

This place is just a forum but it's making me homesick for a home I've never been to.

 

[venray]

A lot of us are in this boat Bro.....It seems it will only get worse before any relief comes at us....until then we have our friends to help us keep on going til things get better.....and they will bro....keep the faith...

 

[kurchatovium]

Hang in there my friend. As venray said a lot of us are in the same boat. Just take it a day at a time. Things will get better.

 

[kopfhorer]

Seven job interviews isn't a lot in today's screwed-up market. Doesn't mean that getting 'em was easy. Doesn't mean that going through them was easy either. You deserve props for making those interviews happen even if their outcome was no-go.

 

[love feet]

im in the boat now to!

 

[Bothersome]

Shit, seven interviews?

I don't even get that far. =\

 

[RC-Auc]

It's not the number of interviews that's important. It's their value. If an interview gets you leads, or information about other opportunities, or information on how to market yourself, it's still valuable. Just because you don't get the job you're applying for doesn't make the trip a waste of time.

 

[Leo tickles]

Snagajob.com is good for local day jobs such as fast food places. It probably won't pay the bills and is generally a lower grade job, but a job is a job. It'll help. If with nothing else, then with your attitude. Getting a job, any job, is always upbringing in tough times.

 

[kis123]

I have familiarity with what you're going through.

I've spent a lot of money educating myself only for the market to tank and render my Masters Degree useless. It's been sitting in its bubble wrap packaging since 2009--way to spend $80K huh?

My "employment" history has never been consistent but since 2007 it's been sporadic and since 2010 nearly non existant. I'm learning new skill sets and trying to do some things on my own but it's tough as hell out there in the work world. Adding to all of the "fun" is that I'm in my late forties; virtually unemployable to the general corporate environment. I'm a fossil at 48.........awesome!

I'm saying all of this to tell you that many are going through some depth of hell or another. It certainly doesn't make either of us feel better but it's to let you know that you are NOT alone. I won't give you a bunch of "cheer up" chatter but I will agree with those posted before me on this thread to never give up and to keep the faith.

Maybe you've been at it too hard and need to pull back temporarily. When I was hot and heavy trying to find work, I hit one brick wall after another. I was exhausted and terribly depressed and just hung out in bed for a few weeks. Then I met someone who changed my life and I wasn't even looking. I wasn't stressed and obsessed with my issues and was able to learn a new skill set that makes me some change and keeps the bill collectors and banks out of my life. That alone was worth its weight in gold!

Whatever decision you make my hope is that you find light at the end of the tunnel and that you keep your options open and always to look for unique opportunities not previously considered. Sometimes opportunity doesn't come the way we think or want.

 

[Marquis De Sade]

The one interview that'll become a hiring will make up for the many that went nowhere real fast. Those won't even matter. As for as the forum, perhaps give it a break. I assume you've made close enough friends here to have carried them over offline or through other social networks. It sounds like you have much more important things to focus on right now than kink man.

Best of luck, hard work and profit throughout this new year. 🙂

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

I hope you can feel better. Like many of the people above, I have been laid off(after 25+ years) from an industry that has seen great decline/consolidation in my state. I also am pushing 50, but from the wrong end!! ***rim shot*** The job ads I see want 7 years experience max and usually 4 years or less, and may have 100+ people applying for each one. You are doing something extremely well to have gotten that many interviews. It is difficult to move to follow work due to the real estate debacle. If misery loves company, we should all be feeling better now. I hope things will improve, but it will take time.

 

[Gothika]

i know how ya feel dude im in that boat as well just keep ya head up things always get worse before they get better

 

[iatickler]

What degree do you have and at what level?

 

[SamuelKhan]

Who bumped this thread?...oh well.

 

[kis123]

Who bumped this thread?...oh well.

Heck, I usually pay attention to dates before I reply to messages.

Well I sure hope you're feeling better.