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Originally Posted by Strive4health
You're definitely not trash. I'm unemployed and am receiving unemployment benefits. A lot of the job postings out there are the real trash, and I already know they will not be long term fixes. I've been on unemployment twice, and neither time was my fault. I did my best to keep my jobs but the economy is what it is. A lot of Millennials are ending up in these situations, and it's not because we're all "entitled." I think the bashers come across a handful of entitled people who ruin it for everyone else.
What the bashers need to realize is a lot of people who end up on welfare, unemployment, etc. need to avoid those situations in the future. This means forgoing what THEY see as lost opportunities to get something and go somewhere better.
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It's been almost a month, but I wanted to respond to this and never knew how.
Take stuff like this for example:
Are we pretty much screwed once the millenials inherit the country? (employment, Congress) - Politics and Other Controversies -Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals, Third Parties, Left-Wing, Right-Wing, Congress, President -
I made the mistake of signing up for this site after seeing several threads linked from there about people in situations like mine. This is where I learned that if you're single, able-bodied, and childless, you shouldn't be able to get benefits. I had a thread written in panicky haste about my distress at searching for work for months and not being able to get a job (several close calls, but the one offer I got I couldn't take because transport was impossible. It's not laziness you see - the buses just don't run at 2am and I have no idea how I'm going to stay occupied and safe for 2-4 hours until they start running again...to say nothing of getting 4 hours of sleep before I have to go back and do it again...but that's just my entitlement talking). Half the responders suggested I join the military (LOL, I'd get disqualified from the physical exam alone), others tell me to go join a commune and stop wasting their tax dollars...
Many talk about my "pity party" to stop complaining online and do something about it, about my "negative attitude" probably being the reason no one will hire me.
I keep thinking if I could just get a job now, I could get enough things in order to maybe go back to school, or get training, or something more secure. But I loathe what I am right now, and suddenly find myself remotivated to try to get out of it. I can never erase it; just, hopefully, transcend it. I will always be welfare trash - you know I have no right to welfare? I should have stayed home and killed myself, or whatever else would have happened. I had no business leaving just because I couldn't handle it.
I can self-flagellate for my despicable actions all I want but it won't change. All I can do is somehow try to repay my debt to society. But I need a job first. I feel like I have no right to even
think - I'm on welfare, what right do I have to have interests, to read and contemplate! I'm in distress and despair and just want to escape the attacks, however indirect.