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« on: January 28, 2012, 05:34:57 am »
I debated putting this in the rant forum, but it doesn't really have enough of The Rage (TM) to qualify it for a place there, in my opinion.
It feels like the universe is conspiring to fill my life with frustrating shit as hard as it can so far this year.
I'm dead fucking broke and can't get a job in this town because nobody will even give me an interview because of one or more of the following:
A) They won't hire people who're currently unemployed and disregard my application
B) They consider 2 years of college as over-qualified and disregard my application
or C) They aren't concerned with applicants being over-qualified so I'm forced to compete with people who have degrees to get a job working the register or stocking shelves, and thus they disregard my application because there's more college graduates alone for them to look through
Can't finish college because I can't even afford the loans I already took out.
Had to move back in with parents due to the above.
Parents' cats are senile shitbags who constantly make messes that I have to try to avoid stepping in.
Parents and fiance's parents both assume I don't have a job because I'm just not trying hard enough.
Even though fiance's mother was the manager of an HR department and admitted that she wouldn't hire me. They'll happily invite me to the immediate-family-only Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, sure, but actually help me out somehow? They're not comfortable with that.
Asked fiance's mother what I'm doing wrong or what I could do to improve my chances. You know, since she's the head of HR for a company and all. Best she could suggest was "Just take whatever you can get."
When I patiently explained that I'd been doing that sort of thing continually for the last 8 years whether I had a job or not, the best further advice she could give was "Keep trying." Because, you know, if something's not working, keep it up.
Fiance is getting sued. One of those sleazebag trawling lawsuits that offer a settlement upfront that's marginally cheaper than actually fighting it. Plus we'd have to take a loan just to be able to afford a lawyer to try, so that's an unacceptable risk.
Consequently any financial plans the get debt paid off and/or move back out are completely off the table for the next few months.
Fiance's parents were already bitching before giving us a good faith pay-when-you-can loan to cover the settlement. Plus they're expecting him to be taking absolutely no less than 18 credit hours a term so he hardly has any time left over at all to earn any money as it is.
My gas budget for being able to see him at all is down to 2.5 trips remaining with no replenishment of any kind in the foreseeable future unless some of the above changes dramatically.
Parents and future in-laws are all being gradually more obnoxious in their attempts to make us want to move out, being happily completely oblivious to the fact that we want to move out several orders of magnitude more badly than they want us to move out.
But none of them will actually do anything that will *help* it happen. They're not even paying for the 18 credit-hours-per-term they're expecting fiance to attend. This, despite the fact that the financial aid department seems convinced that he's just going to school to abuse student loans for free money since he's taking an unusually large number of classes per term and is working on a second degree since it turns out the first one he got *does* have a lot of jobs for it in the region, but NOT ONE place will hire anyone with less than 5 years of prior real-world experience. But apparently trying to get a more widely useful degree is suspicious.
Oh, and one of my aunts recently cracked and went full teabag.
tl;dr version:
Urge to kill rising. Rage and TO THE WALL imminent.
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