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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I messed up by quitting a job because it was moving out of the city I lived in and I didn't want the big commute to the suburbs where I would feel stranded without a car. I did not have another job lined up and foolishly thought it'd be easy to get a new one. Readers, I was incorrect. Cue almost three years of being out of work, blowing through all my savings, being on food stamps, etc. I took so many temp jobs that never panned out. Ultimately accepted the first job I was offered working for a very weird man who turned out to be an actual, literal psychopath. Wound up having to move into a shit-hole apartment I live in to this day, where they claim to check references but don't actually, people OD and die in the hallways, etc. Between feeling unsafe at work and home, I wound up with hives for years.

Then the psychopath decided to merge his own company with a bigger one, and chose to not take me with him, and the cycle of blowing through my (now much more meager) savings and winding up on EBT card happened again. I nearly went crazy. I literally had to apply to an organization that helps people of my minority, and they paid my rent for two months and let me use their food pantry. My brother gave me $5,000 after he and his (pregnant with their first child) wife took me out to breakfast and I burst into tears at the booth over the idea of ordering $12 eggs when what I needed in life was toothpaste.

I eventually got a job at a very nice company, am still there almost 8 years later, and yes, paid back my brother even though he said I didn't have to. I have built up four years of savings. Still in the same shitty apartment, but they rent to higher quality people now who generally just vape and smoke weed so way fewer OD's.

This isn't a "prince marries me and I move into his castle and never work another day in my life" ending, but it's a realistic one. I'll never be able to buy a home, and will never retire. But I have a job. [/quote]
NP —thanks for your encoraging story. I’m so happy you hung in there and things worked out for you. Hoping the same for myself as well, it’s been a very very rocky road.[/quote]

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