Living La Vida Unemployed

Month #8

I have cut back on all expenses and still not making enough. My savings will last maybe for another 6 months if I’m lucky and stay healthy. I couldn’t get assistance with a Pell Grant because they go by your income made the previous year. It doesn’t matter that I’m broke now. Also calling 211 “The United way” was a total joke. A Jamaican lady answered the phone. I could barley make her out. She gave me three phone numbers to call.

The first one said that their hours of operations were 9-4pm and closed on Wednesday. I was disconnected and I called at noon on Thursday! The second number was an answering machine with another heavy Jamaican accent and the third was a wrong number. This is our lovely government at work. meanwhile people from other countries are easily getting grants, loans, unemployment checks, food stamps and everything else under the sun taking work away from hard working Americans that have been doing the right thing, playing it straight, paying taxes and paying their dues for over 25 years!

How dare them say “We are officially out of the recession” I’m sick of watching the freaking news, the Swine flu BS, Health care, and war. What about UNEMPLOYMENT?

I am now depressed confused and lost all confidence for our government. I love my Country but I just hate to see the mismanagement and underhanded  stuff go down.

Don’t get me wrong. I know I am mostly to blame but here me out. I’m a 45 year old male that has worked two to three jobs most my life trying to support my wife and three children never able to educate my self for a professional position. Through hard work and determination I have made a successful career as a senior manager for a few telemarketing firms. Yes, I sacrificed and felt like now things have finally paid off and now it is my turn to start living decent. Yeah, for an uneducated dummy like me I was living la vida loca! Now I’m living la vida unemployed. Lesson learned, “stuff happens” and rather than blaming everyone else and waiting for something to happen you need to make things happen and start thinking what am I prepared to do about it.

I need to start all over again. Start from the beginning and pay my dues, do my time and maybe I’ll stay afloat. Look at it as a positive thing. I get to have a “Do-over”. Start a new beginning, a new career, part two on my life, but for now… I’ll get on my Harley and ride!