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BluesyArc284
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New year, hoping for a new start
Anxiety Support / by BluesyArc284
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 January 8th, 2019
...See more Before Christmas in 2017, I was let go from my job of 17 years. It was only my second job Id ever had, and I had started right out of college there. I had worked my way up to assistant manager and was comfortable there, loved the people I worked with, loved the job. Our company was bought out by a new company that came in and replaced the entire staff gradually with cheaper labor. I was the first of the bunch to be let go, the others were fired or laid off over the course of the next month after I was let go. Never had I experienced depression or anxiety before, other than a few times when bad things had happened to me back in high school or the months after my mother passed away 13 years earlier. But navigating the job market as a 39 year old man trying to go back to work while dealing with late rent (unemployment benefits dont pay for much, and in my state they only last 12 weeks anyway), having no car, etc. it was very tough. I eventually found another job, but it was only part time and paid less. The offsets were chances for advancement, automatic pay raises every review period, and the fact that the company had never laid anyone off in their entire history (and you have to be REALLY bad to get fired there too). Long story short: I was evicted, was homeless for a while, and now am living in an extended stay hotel 30 min walk from work. It costs $52 a night, and takes up 90% of my take home pay now. Thats with full time hours that I am now getting. So stressful!
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