I am not a nice person
Nov. 17th, 2018 02:26 pm I am scared and mean. I am envious and feeling spiteful. I read so many posts on Facebook about people taking vacations, visiting their vacation homes, having fun, and all I feel these days is anger and jealousy. I am scared witless. I still have not found a job that will have me. All I get are rejections or — even worse — just nothing. No response to me at all. I have great conversations with recruiters that then go nowhere. I have interviews — although not many of those — and then I get silence. I have enough money to keep us going and cover the bills for another month and then we have to make some scary and hard decisions. I will have just enough to pay moving expenses to relocate somewhere less expensive (our rent here is $3000 a month) but then what do I do about my son? He still lives with us but his life is here on Long Island. I can't think about the holidays or gifts or fun or anything except the gnawing stark fear in my guts. I can't sleep, I have trouble focusing sometimes. And even if I can move us, what will we do for money then? I am too young to file for Social Security. I can't get medical coverage. I might as well die. This is not living. This is just terror. Unending terror.
I am 60 years old, I have tons of good experience, but it seems I am washed up. No use to anyone. I have reached out to friends and contacts. I have sent out hundreds of resumes and cover letters. I have applied to anything and everything that seems even remotely appropriate. I am terrified of being homeless but I think that is exactly what is coming. I won't even have a car because I have a leased vehicle and it will get repossessed once I can't make the payment.
I can't believe my life ended up like this. Useless, broke, soon to be out on the streets.