I think when people do that, they see they're just trying to help out. When we turn down their offers, they're thinking "what's her problem? Can't she see I'm just trying to help her"? We want emotional support and acknowledgement for our predicaments, but our friends and family see giving us suggestions as their form of support.

It's weird you told him you weren't interested and he kept throwing them at you. I'd get frustrated, too. You're using your own money so I don't see why it was a problem. It goes to show how people think of the unemployed. We must all just be "lazy" people living off society or something I'm actually living off of my savings and extended unemployment I was eligible for. People take an issue with that, but they don't seem to get I lost my job because my company got rid of my job not because I got myself fired.

I also believe I making good use of my time but no one will hear of that. I volunteer, I am raising my gpa with finishing up school and I am learning job skills. I attend networking events when I can, so it's not as if I am some couch potato who doesn't treat myself like a person. There's just not a way to get people to understand that, I suppose.