Today, marks the 8-month anniversary of receiving my Masters degree. It also marks 8 months of depression and unemployment because the dream job in my field I was promised before graduation was rescinded due to COVID-19. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got my first job offer in over a year, a mere few days after being accepted to study for my dream career. My crippling depression won't allow me to enjoy any of it. FML
Today, and for the past 6 months of unemployment, I’ve realized my life is spiraling downward fast. Years of hard work, sacrifice, honors from top schools, and constant validation, JUST TO GET BRUTALLY ASSFUCKED BY THE GODDAMN JOB MARKET. It feels like everything I worked for went down the drain. FML
Today, I received a call from a top-rated university accepting me into the program of my dreams to begin my ultimate career. Two weeks ago, I accepted a permanent, full time and legally-binding job position in my depressive hometown because the school had previously rejected me. FML
Today, it's the third anniversary of when I started looking for a new job. I'm still working at the job that made me want to get a new one and I haven't even had an interview for another one in almost two years. My Master's degree on the wall is looking more and more like a roll of toilet paper. FML
Today, it was my two-week anniversary of starting my new job, after over a year of unemployment due to Covid. It was great, I was getting on with people, and it actually felt like a career where my skillset was valued and I was appreciated by the management. I showed up to work this morning to find it had burned down. FML
Today, after nearly eight months of unemployment, I started a great new job. After seven and a half hours of work, my new boss comes up to tell me what a great job I was doing, but that he somehow forgot to clear the new hire with the company owner, so I'm fired. Hello, unemployment... again. FML
Today, it's been two years since I graduated with my master's. It's also been the same amount of time since I've been looking for a job. I got an e-mail yesterday from a company for a telephone interview which I was happy about. The day of the interview, my phone is disconnected. FML
Today, I got an email stating that my scholarship request was denied, 51 days after applying with no response. I'm now forced to drop-out from my college degree because I ran out of money, and I've been unsuccessful at finding a job for two years either, thanks to Covid. FML
Today, I am jobless after graduation. Ironic, since when I started college with my education degree, I was congratulated, told of the teacher shortage in my state, and how quickly I would be able to find a job. Three years in, the economy tanks, and the state issues a teacher hiring freeze. FML
Today, my marriage is one week away. Despite all the challenges we faced during COVID, we powered through everything. Today is also the day my work decided to tell me they're letting me go. I now have to either go on my improvised honeymoon or job hunt. FML
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Chazzster 32
Obviously that job is not happening and you have to make a new plan in two parts: (1) What do you do now and short term for survival (2) What is your long term plan for your career. In the best of times, sometimes things fall though and we don’t get to do what we planned. These are tough times and a lot of people are suffering and many more are scratching by doing what they can, just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. And these tough times may last for much of this year or even longer. I sympathize with your disappointment, but it’s time for a new plan. Who knows, maybe you will ultimately find an even better job or maybe your “dream job” was more of a mirage than real. But there is ultimately more than one good career path, you have to concentrate on what can be instead of what never was.
Jillian Cosby-Kelly 15
sorry you're having a rough time op. also sorry that so many better established people think that your problems dont count because they feel theirs are bigger...... must be a sad existence for them to believe that they are more important than everyone else and still treated like shit.
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Warp1978 15
Did you get this promise in writing? If not you need to let go and move on. Try muscling into this guys tin can recycling business 😄😄😄
Chazzster 32
Obviously that job is not happening and you have to make a new plan in two parts: (1) What do you do now and short term for survival (2) What is your long term plan for your career. In the best of times, sometimes things fall though and we don’t get to do what we planned. These are tough times and a lot of people are suffering and many more are scratching by doing what they can, just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. And these tough times may last for much of this year or even longer. I sympathize with your disappointment, but it’s time for a new plan. Who knows, maybe you will ultimately find an even better job or maybe your “dream job” was more of a mirage than real. But there is ultimately more than one good career path, you have to concentrate on what can be instead of what never was.
spinspinsugar 12
some girl took my husband's job and his relocation offer when she hadn't worked there for a year, while my husband built that dept from the ground up. he got laid off 2 more times after that and ended up at a job that made him and me miserable. oh and btw we've been outta college 8 YEARS and can't find anything in our field. welcome to the real world.
Jillian Cosby-Kelly 15
sorry you're having a rough time op. also sorry that so many better established people think that your problems dont count because they feel theirs are bigger...... must be a sad existence for them to believe that they are more important than everyone else and still treated like shit.