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Yes, once again I am unemployed and once again the market is not the most user friendly.
The real difference this time is two fold.
Numbah ONE: The government is fucking me. Due to an overpayment situation from the last time I had unemployment (long story involving a check that came after I was let go and the government seeing that as unclaimed income) they have decided the best way to teach me a lesson is to include a penalty period in my payment schedule. 6 weeks before they will process the first actual check. Which means that even though I planned for the checks to arrive this week and thus was down to my last $60, doesn't matter. First payment processed around January 11th.
What's that? It's only the first week of DECEMBER? How am I supposed to survive a month+ on $60? Heh, not the governments problem! Should of thought of that before you went and were the victim of a government fuck up, now shouldn't you?
Numbah TWO: Because I am pursuing a career path in IT, my options for work are limited. The IT Field is already over saturated with potential workers, even BEFORE the economic meltdown that we as a country are currently dealing with, compounded with the recession that the Silicon Valley has been dealing with since the DotCom bust.
The silver lining here is that my payments have not started yet so that means the amount of time to find a job is extended, which is cool, but I am still on shaky ground to start with.
The universe is offering me opportunities to take care of some life stuff with the whole time available. Getting out and walking to lose the extra me I have acquired over the last year or so.
Just getting out in general.
The only problem is the places I want to walk cost money (gas) to get to. Walking Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Belmont. All of these places cost gas money.
I would go back and look at the other times in my life here on LJ where I was unemployed to remind myself of how things were then and what I thought, also to show that things got better, but no thank you. I am already anxious and worried enough with out compounding it with previous memories of those situations.