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The end of the world? A downward spiral of fear
...I'm reading about the recession again, and I'm terrified.
The whole world is caught in this terrible downward spiral that, according to everyone, will not end for at least a year even by the most optimistic standards. People losing jobs, money getting more scarce, deflation settling in, fewer and fewer opportunities, and economists crying that it's only going to get worse -- much, much worse.
It just makes you feel powerless -- completely powerless. There's nothing I can do to stop this. There's nothing any of us can do. There's not even anything Barack Obama can do.
I'm never going to get a job. And my unemployment is running out and I don't think I can get another extension. I've been thinking about getting training for a safer career, like nursing, but I can't afford it. But at least I now have a way to make money on the side working from home (but will it last, what if I get laid off from that too) and soon my lease will be up and I'll be able to mooch off my roommate's family so I won't have a monthly rent drain (but is that really okay, it's so far away from where I'm job-hunting). So that's good, right?
...Is June here yet? I want to bury myself in The Sims 3.
Until then, guess I'll try to write this dream I had into a novel. Maybe novels still make money.
The whole world is caught in this terrible downward spiral that, according to everyone, will not end for at least a year even by the most optimistic standards. People losing jobs, money getting more scarce, deflation settling in, fewer and fewer opportunities, and economists crying that it's only going to get worse -- much, much worse.
It just makes you feel powerless -- completely powerless. There's nothing I can do to stop this. There's nothing any of us can do. There's not even anything Barack Obama can do.
I'm never going to get a job. And my unemployment is running out and I don't think I can get another extension. I've been thinking about getting training for a safer career, like nursing, but I can't afford it. But at least I now have a way to make money on the side working from home (but will it last, what if I get laid off from that too) and soon my lease will be up and I'll be able to mooch off my roommate's family so I won't have a monthly rent drain (but is that really okay, it's so far away from where I'm job-hunting). So that's good, right?
...Is June here yet? I want to bury myself in The Sims 3.
Until then, guess I'll try to write this dream I had into a novel. Maybe novels still make money.
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Universities have been hit so hard in the U.S. My husband has a job for the fall but it isn't secure and his summer teaching load is 75% lighter. He's teaching more students because instructors are being let go. We've never been through anything like this. I've only ever read about these sorts of hard times so I figure it's just my turn to buckle down and bear it. The economy will swing back up--it always does.
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-__- I'm currently fighting against my most recent employer, who 'fired' me on a totally bullshit reason, suspiciously right before school is letting out, and the work-load gets lighter for them.
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She won't get much from unemployment, and they're fighting her on it anyway. It's awful.
I feel so...helpless. *mourns with*
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yeah, it's scary. I don't want that guy who predicted like, all this shit, to also be right about food riots and other stuff.