The big slide down the slippery slope is imminent, beginning next week, when I pay my last rent check. March will be my last month under a roof unless I find work. Yikes, I’m not quite ready for this, but I really have no other options. Perhaps you are one of the fortunate ones who has never had to close a bank account due to insufficient funds. I have never had this issue either, until now. I still have a little bit of money in the bank, but not enough for their minimum balance, so I’ll be cashing what I have left and hope I’ll have a job and be able to re-open the account soon. It also means that I lose my credit card, after years of impeccable credit and no bad juju with that. It won’t be easy for me to get a new credit card, given the tighter restrictions since last year. It might be impossible, depending on what happens in my future. Trouble is, I haven’t had any potential jobs headed my way or had an interview since early January. I’m beginning to feel as if I am plain, flat out un-hirable. One staffing agency would like to help me, but they are still not ready to take on any new people and keep telling me “Next month, call us next month.” I’ve run out of ideas and there’s nowhere to turn except out the door into homelessness. At least by the end of March the weather will be getting warm again and might be less rainy. Sliding should be fun, like going to Six Flags and riding the flume zoom, riding a sheet of cardboard down a hill in the park or going to a playland when you’re a kid, right? But this slide is the kind that happens when the rug is pulled out from under you and there’s nothing to do but crash on your ass…no fun.
Tags: looking for work, no money, San Francisco, slippery slope, Unemployed
February 24, 2010 at 9:06 am |
MoNo– Aren’t you getting unemployment?
February 25, 2010 at 11:21 am |
Hi W.D. Good to hear from you again.
To answer your question, no. I had a “real,” albeit unpleasant, job that I left on my own free will before I moved back to San Francisco. I knew quitting would be risky, but I have always had an easy time finding work, so I was not worried about it. Once in San Francisco, I had been doing contract work that I was hoping would increase in volume but instead dried up completely. One place I was working for decided to do the work themselves and another found free work from students at a college where she was teaching. Attempts at finding similar long-term work in the past four months have proved fruitless. Life would be a lot easier with unemployment, definitely.