Me too. I've held some jobs for 2 1/2 years, and some for only three months. My work history looks like Swiss cheese. Now on top of that I'm almost 56 and seriously overweight.....the only thing that could make me more unemployable would be tattoos all over my face. I'm still a licensed nurse but can't work due to the severe stress, and I'm overqualified for the unskilled minimum-wage jobs. I'm also a nervous wreck even THINKING about going back to work at any job.

Finally this past summer I filed for disability. I don't know if I'll get it, even though I have an attorney, a diagnosis of bipolar 1, and a hospitalization along with my spotty job history to show how dysfunctional I am. I've never been very good at doing the poor, poor, pitiful me thing, but I know I've got to if I want to have any chance of winning my case.

I wish I could work. I wish someone would take a chance and hire me, and then be flexible enough to handle it when the inevitable ups and downs occur. Might as well wish for the moon.