If Mary would be so kind as to send me her phone number, I could die a happy man! Long as I get a discount, that is.
Look y'all, quit with the doom and gloom shit! We've all been out of work before, lord knows I have. We've survived the shitty economies of the past before. The country survived and so did we, and we can again. I don't want to hear the "woe is me" crap here. Temporary setback, that's all this is, and that is how you have no choice but to look at it as!
Lemme tell you something. You can find a way. That should be the title of this post. I was a young 20-something with no marketable skills trying to support myself and when I got a job my only transportation got repo'd. I was left with a crappy manual labor job and had to walk and hitchhike nearly 20 miles. I found a way. I hitchhiked, paid gas money for rides, and one night walked home. But I turned that job into something. I learned everything I could on that job even above and beyond what I had to do just to earn my meager paycheck. I learned enough to teach other people there. And when a better job came along, the manager literally begged me to stay. We shook hands and I moved on. Next job, same thing. I took it upon myself to learn everything and was rewarded with more responsibilities and when I did get fired (over really stupid shit) was back to work "temporarily" while waiting for the next job to start. The manager called me, I didn't call him. He even said to me "god damn! I wish I hadn't fired you!" but the new job offered money he didn't have to offer.
The job I have now, I didn't even apply for. The owner of the shop got my number from someone else and called me. I was hired on the spot. With no paperwork, not even a W-4, I was handed the keys to the company truck and told to go get my toolboxes and start immediately upon my return. Why? Not because I'm some genius in my industry. Just because I've left behind me a solid work history where even those who have fired me will tell you that they'd hire me again. (screwed up as that may sound, but it is a question asked when checking references)
Never ever let the gloom and doom portrayals of the economy get you down. There is work out there for you. It might be hard manual labor, but damn! Work is work!
