Unemployed and feeling it!

Mental Health Anxiety & Panic Disorders
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Hi,
I am new to the sight. I have been unemployed for 2 1/2 months. I will be going to court for my bankruptcy in june. At that time, my house will go into foreclosure. I feel like I am not connected to the world. I have lost my business, house, and all my money. I have worked hard to accomplish all of this by myself as a single mother. Now, it is all wiped away so fast.

I know hard times, I know how to survive, I know how to be without money. This time the battle seems like it is winning. I have always been the one to say you can do this, I have lived my life as an example. This time is harder to get up. I have been turned down by unemployment because I owned it and I closed the business. So, I have no money coming in. In the next two months, I will be out of cash and no credit.

I have never been through nothing like this before and I have to be honest, It is kicking my butt.

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Not sure where you are from and how the unemployment rate is there. Here it is picking up and people are starting to get employed. You are strong yet falling apart inside. I have been there with my family. Revise your resume and get to applying. I am sure you have already been doing that. Have you thought of in home daycare to get by? Please keep me posted on how you are doing! Praying for you!

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Healed by Faith,
Thank you for your response. I have moved to Chicago but lived in Virginia. I am living with my daughter, so I can't do the baby sitting in her apartment. It is funny that you said Strong. Everyone says that about me. So, when I go through hard times, they say "oh, I know you will get through it.". This time, it is very hard. I know that I am strongm but sometimes I don't want to be. It takes all of me to get throught the day.

I dedicated my life to working to a place that I can have my own company and home and like I said it is all gone. I have a small storage unit to keep my household items. Thank you for your prayers and I will keep you posted, Thanks

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Hi Lady,
what kind of business did you have? I own my own little business myself i fix welding equipment. But since i'm a problem solver i'm always looking for more ways of cash flow. I'm a problem solver by trade i like new ideas and i love team work. I solved identity theft, fixed software piracy and was going to start a website again but my son wrecked the car so dollars went to a new car.

I make no promises, and doing your own thing you know how to be persistant. I can't do all these things by myself so if you may be interested leave me a private message and we can talk. I know how it sucks to loose what you built, but lets face it the economy sucks and that probably got you.

So let me know and maybe we can assemble a team to start something good.

If not and you want to regroup for awhile that is fine also and i do wish you the very best.

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Hi Michael,

I'm unemployed as well. terrified. june first i might have to give my notice to move out of my apt. trying not to freak out, I totally get where u are at. I'm trying to do "i wants" to get clarity and direction about work.

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do you think intuition can be honed?

i've been working on this book on intuition. (Laura Day - Practical Intuition) and one of the keys of it is to ask questions, specific and then try and discern the images that you come up with. u may only understand the images later. but anyway here are my questions:

1. who do i ask, where do i look for financially and emotionallly rewarding work right now? in different exercises, i got an old boss in grand cayman, a friends ex husband and my current freelance creative director. I contacted the creative director finally this aft. i'll wait and see about the other

2. what foods do i need to eat/remove to lose weight? so far in a dream last night: strawberry jam came up, and they came up in an exercise today and corn came up yesterday. dont know if it's actual or symbolic.

3. who do i need to talk to/meet to create meaningful relationships? the answer was an image of a flower w/8 petals, and the 8 might mean all the ppl in my family (there were 8 of us) and that i needed all of them to become me. so i don't know if that means creating/accepting me and making peace with my past and my abuse? or if it means relationship w/family. im more inclined to think it means coming to terms with myself and liking me and accepting that my past has made me whole instead of feeling victimized and hopeless about my past.

4. the last questions was what activities do i need to pursue/go to in order to have a more meaningful successful life? i'm not sure if i have any follow up with that? maybe pursuing my photography and my own businesss.

its kind of interesting cause the book is based on this premise, that everything is out there but we mostly ignore what we dont need. but if we are looking for something specific well find it.

let me know what you think

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Hi Pam,
I have to scroll up so this may look really strange. And i refuse bifocals because if i want to recline in a chair i gotta have my glasses on the tip of my nose. So i made the print on the screen big.

intuition, everybody has that to some extent i guess, would i use it as my sole source a big NO. Can we make our own path and be successful yup.

A little about me, all my life i've had to build my own castles, the old over qualified you know the drill. Now i'm 56 with a degree in marketing and an MBA. Both absolutely useless anymore. These people would rather hire some idiot fresh out of school knowing nothing and pay them less, than someone who can walk the walk.

Me i like and have used the pros and cons approach, which if you are honest works really well. Your questions are very valid by the way. What you need to find is a niche that nobody has thought of and attack that. And with our economy doing a continual downward spiral that can even be hard. So everybody you know are your personal work force to find a job. Usually the good ones aren't advertised.

question time as you wrote them,
1. what are you good at? what are your strong points? what is your experience?
2. Foods to lose weight (heck i need to lose a little), fish, fruit, whole grains, limit fried foods. Cut back on sugar no need to eliminate all.
But as much as you can bake as far as meat and fish go. And take a walk around the block once or twice a day. So as food goes everything with moderation, but, it's ok to splurge on yourself once in a while.
3. well i'll use business here, everyone you had a good repore with co-worker or customer. Those are the people to seek out. and their may be 8 of them. And NEVER pick on yourself that just makes things worse. it's good to have a personal relationship for support for a crappy day. And teamwork, very important. So in a nut shell the people right in front of you may be the answer you are looking for, so listen closely.
4. Ah this one i like the best, a pros and cons list for sure on anything you'd like to shoot for. I have no idea who did this quote but it is so true "you have to love what you do to get great at it", you can still be good but not where you want.

From me to you, what do you really like to do? We have other things we can talk about but this first. Then use my list. What i've written to you sounds kind of like a business plan WELL IT IS.

I like your style so let me know and we'll start to dwindle the list. You may have your own business, who knows.

I will talk to you soon, bye for now.

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Michael - Thank you for your response. I had a transportation business. I am a problem solver as well. Right now, I am licking my wounds. Are you in Chicago? Send me a message and tell me what are you thinking about as far as business. Look forward to hearing from you.

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Good afternoon,
Nope i moved from Denver to nowhere Nebraska like 11 years ago.
Before that i started my own business from self defense, seems i was over qualified or was used to making to much money. I actually was the victum of industrial sabotage even though my company was doing well until all that caught up with me. So we (now I lol) decided to buy a small business out here that decided to have a short circuit and down it came. And i just stuck around a mistake towns to small.

I really have come up with solutions for identity theft and software piracy.
And i know i can't do them myself needss to be a team effort. And for grant or small business loans i can't own the company. Has to be a girl yup. Why, well let me tell you lol.

Women are considered MINORITIES as far as the government goes to apply and get funding.

The identity theft program requires some hardware that is available for cheap. A small gateway software program, and the HARDEST thing getting to people that can make a decision, they hide really well. So lots of digging maybe off their Wall Street exchange number. And them signing a non compete/disclosure statement.. The only place where this wouldn't work is over the phone fraud, but that is minimal now days.

This doesn't stop things after it happens, but stops a transaction from happening period.

If interested let me know and you get to sign a non compete/disclosure statement also. Just good business, you are used to it.

Last a little easy hoework, when commercials come on about identity theft, how many BILLIONS yes BILLIONS do they say it costs a year. All the companies that offer protection for X dollars a month are making a killing. None come close to how this works. You do the math.

talk to ya soon, have a good day

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Hello Again,
I have a problem for you are anyone that reads this to solve. And the reason you choose your answer.

You get a letter in the mail saying that you have won a contest (which you never entered). The following is what you have won.
1. A color television
2. A diamond ring
3. A thousand dollars
4. A trip to disnyland

Good hunting,

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hi Michael,

"people would rather hire some idiot fresh out of school knowing nothing and pay them less, than someone who can walk the walk" i totally hear u. i'm 39 and im worried about that cause the industry does want younger more than older.

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Hi Pam you are on the same page as i am. You aren't that old so i wouldn't worry to much. If you don't mind what do you do?

I've figured all we people with skills need to build our own castles. And i've got ideas like i said. and with the puter generation travel could be limited a big plus. So I'm hunting, but i can't promise yet.

take my little quiz and let me know what your answer is, if nothing else it will be fun. Those people used to pay big bucks to set those up, and they had to pay out to prevent mail fraud.

**** business is fun, especially with a team, yes i'm team dude.

see ya later, bye

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2. a diamond ring, but you have to pay the setting and they try and get u to upgrade.

I'm an art director. and working on a food product and cookbook on a personal level. i think photography might be ahidden talent as well.

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Michael:

You moved FROM Denver. I believe Denver has changed from being a nice place to live to being very cutthroat. People call it the "young" city. What did you think of Denver? I would appreciate your opinion. Thank you.