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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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I sold my old house last year for similar concerns and intense worry. I don't have the words I want, in order to respond, because my confidence in my ability to communicate has taken a few hits lately. @AvidFan we are really glad you're here. I think we all know these are hard times and have a sense of things possibly getting darker. I'm not denying the lure of stopping pain by choosing death, but please don't give in to it.
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Right now, I just want it to be over. I’m having intrusive thoughts about ending everything. If the job market is as bad as what I am reading on job sites, it is going to take a while.
I don’t have a while. My rainy day fund has been hit with a few rainy days in the past two years. Well, at least it’s a few months of expenses. I am grateful that I have anything. I read that 50% of gen-x and younger are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning no savings and barely scraping by. I need to get busy with my job search.
It have no reason to live. Only reasons why I shouldn’t kms. I wake up in the morning thinking about methods.
I don’t have a while. My rainy day fund has been hit with a few rainy days in the past two years. Well, at least it’s a few months of expenses. I am grateful that I have anything. I read that 50% of gen-x and younger are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning no savings and barely scraping by. I need to get busy with my job search.
It have no reason to live. Only reasons why I shouldn’t kms. I wake up in the morning thinking about methods.
I'm right there with you at the moment. My life is 99% stress, suffering and firefighting. My rainy day fund is not that big to start with and multiple rainy days are here. Every day, pretty much. If I'm lucky, I will be able to use the rainy day fund and borrow a ton of money on top and might be able to sort out my issues which will leave me living hand to mouth again and working myself into the ground with huge debt again. Or it might be so beyond me that I cannot even borrow enough to fix things in the short term. Can't afford to move, I live in a shitty little old house and apartments cost more -the service charges would ruin me. At that point I become worth more dead than alive. I'm already better off financially terminally ill than staying healthy, so that would not actually be the worse outcome to find out I was dying and could get the job done for me. Sorry you are in this position, I wish neither of us was.
Sorry things are going so badly for you. I assume you have applied for unemployment. That really does help. I have been laid off 6 times. The suggestion I would have for you is to not give up and to be open to new opportunities. Even a job that you thought you would never take. Even something to just keep the money coming in until you find something you really want.
Its only natural to have those feelings. We care about you a lot here Mike and are always rooting for you. I hope today is a better day. 
mike.....
Not yet but I’m planning to do that today, which probably means I’ll get it done by Thursday.
I guess if I’m really hurting I can apply at Costco; I have a close friend who works in HR there (although in the Phoenix office), who is willing to put in a good word for me. I would be looking for a database job, as opposed to running a register. I have heard that everyone starts on the floor, which I can do and I think would be good at. Just not for too long, as hiring managers in my field assume that any career detours are a signal that I don’t really know what I’m doing.
I guess if I’m really hurting I can apply at Costco; I have a close friend who works in HR there (although in the Phoenix office), who is willing to put in a good word for me. I would be looking for a database job, as opposed to running a register. I have heard that everyone starts on the floor, which I can do and I think would be good at. Just not for too long, as hiring managers in my field assume that any career detours are a signal that I don’t really know what I’m doing.
