ryanmercer

I'm curious, those of you that have been laid off this year/late last year, and still haven't found employment, how are you surviving? (mentally, financially, etc) This is entirely new territory for me and my skillset is nowhere near as robust or varied as a lot of others that have been laid off the past 2 quarters.

I'm getting worn out. I'm going into day 79 of unemployment. Hundreds of applications, zero interviews.

Was laid off on my birthday, few weeks later my mother was diagnosed with cancer and given less than 3 years with treatment and less than 1 without, few days later my mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer after almost 2 weeks in the hospital, this past Monday $1300 something dollar plumbing repair in the wall, $500 to a lawyer last week to get my mother a will (retired via disability, minimal possessions), it's been a rough year.

I estimate I'm a month or two from ending up at Walmart or McDonalds just to get more money coming in as my wife's teacher salary and the gig work I've been doing only goes so far.