Hello everyone!

I wanted to share my story with someone. I don’t have the money to talk with someone professionally, and I don’t really have any friends that I can talk to about this. Thank you in advance for those of you that do read this.

I am a 25 year old male; I have been unemployed for over a year now and I have drained my savings. I decided to go back to college to earn a degree to help aid me in my job search in addition to the several years of experience I have. Currently I have been applying from any job I can find from sales, to customer service, to assistant, to fast food… ANYTHING regardless of my qualifications for the job. I’ve been applying to at least 10-15 jobs a day, in a 35 mile radius (I live about 30miles north of Los Angeles, CA). I’ve been physically visiting business and applying to ads online on websites like Craigslist and Monster. I’m also working with 3 temp agencies, and have yet to find even temporary employment with any of them this entire time. I can’t continue paying my tuition at this point (with financial aid and a student loan even) so I’m on the verge of losing my education. I’ve lost my apartment, and am now sleeping on my grandmother’s couch in the “retirement community” that she lives in. Yesterday I got pulled over for expired tags, and got nailed for driving without insurance and without a valid license. My car is in a 30 day impound and there is no way I’ll be able to pay for the court fees, or pay to renew my insurance, license, and registration… this could possibly end up in me going to jail as well. Forget about being able to afford to get my car out of impound. If I could have afforded to keep my car current this entire time I would have.

I have nowhere to go for help. My grandmother lives off of social security (a very small amount every month) so I cannot ask her for money. There is no one else in my life I can ask for money. While being unemployed, I have destroyed my credit rating. Now I don’t have a car… only a terrible excuse for a bus system, and I can only search for a job locally (where there are no jobs). I’ve already begun selling all of my possessions that I do not need.

How do I find a positive to my situation? How is it going to get better? How is this not completely hopeless? I can’t afford food… I can’t afford anything. I am depressed and I don’t see a way out of it.