One of my MyLot.com friends, a wonderful lady in the United States, wrote this comment to me the other day, after I made some noises about the criticism that the unemployed are forced to take from others:
"I do not understand why anyone would think that the unemployed are well rewarded. Unless things are different in your country, people only get a portion of their previous earnings while on unemployment. Since many of us are struggling to get by on our entire earnings, how would it be more rewarding to only get a portion of that?!".
Quite! I wonder why she gets it, and many others do not.
And then there is the loss of self-worth, the humiliation, the overwhelming sense of uselessness. And the poverty, which seems to increase as time goes by!
After the fiasco (and the humiliation involved) with my job at Procter and Gamble, it became a story of how I managed to make one day's work turn into two months salary - anything to avoid putting myself back on the dole. And then came May 31st - not a job in sight, the 'phone calls have dried up entirely, and there are few grounds for optimism.
I decided to become a freelance translator as IT is obviously out of the question now. There were some promising leads. They have now all fallen flat. Nothing appears to be happening there either. I got one piece of work which will bring in all of 54 Euro, if I can ever get the money off them. This hardly makes a dent in the monthly utility bills.
So where do you go from here? I have changed all my profiles on various websites, nobody appears interested. I am tired of the poverty, I do not want to be on the dole queue again, and I can see no other alternatives. You dig the proverbial hole for yourself, you jump in, and allow yourself to be buried up to the proverbial neck with the proverbial sand! "Bleak" understates it!
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