I’ve been unwillingly unemployed for about 5 months. I just recently took a part time job just so I could start making any money. My boyfriend was just fired from from a tech company on Friday for “not washing his hands”. He says his colleagues have noticed that he gets singled out there. Neither of us qualify for UI bc of the “fault of your own” clause.
We have been taking mental health walks in the morning and recently discovered a cafe in our neighborhood. It was only our second day there and the sole barista was complaining that “no one wants to work”- to two fired, desperate unemployed people. The fucking irony. Either of us, in theory, could work there and I had a wave of opportunism to offer to apply. But we just stood there stunned at our reality in that moment. Fuck 2020, 2021, 2022 and next year too.
We are considering going back to school 1) to wait out this economy 2) to make ourselves more hirable.
Any advice on that or just fury about the current circumstances is appreciated. Fucking bullshit.