19 September 2010

A day in the life of a so-called "spoiled" unemployed person

I am unemployed and I don't especially like being me. 

I tried living with my sister and looking after her kids while i looked for work but that didn't work.  I had a lot of trouble with the children, and barely had time to study for my PTCB. 

I live with my mother and do all the heavy lifting or i cut the grass and i clean the bathrooms. I shred documents like canceled checks,  and put stuff in the car to be taken to Goodwill or Salvation Army.  I am organizing the family pictures and scanning them.  

My family has spent 21 years accumulating documents, and pictures and clothes, knicknacks, and this heap wasn't built in a day, so it will take some time to get rid of it.  I have spent days shredding sensitive documents, the equivalent of TWO  normal week's work, and maybe three by the time I am done.

For a while i was looking after my grandfather, going on errands with him,  but he died, and i miss him. I'll never make pancakes for him again or get him coffee.

 I can't afford a mani/pedi. I do not own designer clothes unless i have been lucky to get it at a thrift or secondhand shop.  I do my clothes shopping at the outlet mall and hem my new jeans myself.   Sometimes I get to buy a used book from the library's sale cart if they have anything i will read over and over again.  I haven't colored my hair in five years.

I have applied to just about everything. I've applied to McDonalds, Publix,  Dollar Tree,  Burger King, Target, Best Buy, Jo Ann Fabrics, Michaels, Big Lots, I've put my resume at temp services.   I've applied at Walmart -  but failed their  test 3 times.  I've applied for govenment jobs. I've worked for the Salvation Army as a bellringer.  I am also a certified pharmacy technician, I passed the PTCB.    I am good with computers and I would even go back to a call center if i was offered a job there.

I don't know what to do.

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