» Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:27 pm I had recently finished High School in December, having intended to get a job and do minor film-work on the side for the sake of building up a small audience and hopefully using it to launch a Kickstarter campaign.
Three months later... as well as what has to be around 30 Applications, and I never received so much as a single phone call back to tell me "Nope." I'm living with my girlfriend's family, getting around 200 dollars a month from my Mom (whom has really surprised me recently,) have no competent people to do film with (your contacts aren't exactly the greatest upon leaving High School,) and trying to write a fantasy novel in 75-80 degree weather.
This doesn't bother me, to much anyways. Life is rough, oh well. Nobody ever got anything done by lamenting their sorrow every day over the internet, or however they did it before such a thing existed. I live by the philosophy that I'll cease to exist one day, so might as well keep moving forward no matter what.
What bothers me are two things: 1:The ignorant attitudes that some people have toward the unemployed. 2: The scumbags that make unemployed people (like me) look bad.
The best example I have for number one is something my girlfriend's sister told her a week ago, when I wasn't in earshot. "Tell him to get a freaking job already!" I REALLY wish she tried saying something like that directly to me. All of you know that I'm a rude bastard who won't restrain himself, so just take a moment to imagine the hellfire I would have brought down upon her. By the way, this woman doesn't even live in the same house as the rest of us, so she has no reason to get pissy with me.
Here's some advice if you know someone that's unemployed: Don't tell them to get a job. Not only is it the most useles thing you can say, but it's also flat-out insulting. Chances are that they have been trying, but this terrible thing called a bad economy is making that a bit hard, as well as the "apply online" philosophy that just about every major corporation in the U.S has adopted.
As for my second gripe? Some unemployed people making the rest of us look bad? My girlfriend has an aunt (whom I absolutely despise for so many reasons) that just LOVES to be a scumbag. She cheats on her husband, than post about it (in a very terrible attempt at being vague) on Facebook; she smokes infront of her young children, and anyone else for that matter; she complains about being broke, and here's the punchline... she had a simple job that she quit, "because the lady I work with was mean."
The lady she works with was probably not mean, but frustrated at this woman's lack of competence! And this is the woman whos mother, my girlfriend's grandma, likes to complain about me and my girlfriend not getting a job (my girlfriend is finishing her last quarter of High School by the way.) The cherry on top is that my girlfriend's mom is ALSO unemployed, and, like her sister, is not even trying to get a job or do something else.
So that's my story. I know a lot of you have been in, or are in the unemployment boat. What's it been like for you, how long, and what do you do with all the free time?
