To hate this recession

[Hydrophilic]

I have been out of work since September. I have recently got a christmas temp job in a supermarket but only a few hours. It doesn't even cover the council tax on our flat (rented, cheapest we could find). I don't get paid until the end of December either annoyingly.

Despite having good transferrabls skills and applying for loads of jobs, having interviews I havn't got a job.

I'm sat here crying because I'm so hungry. I don't have the energy to cook porridge ( its what I live off now). I couldn't sleep last night as my tummy was rumbling and didn't have anything at all the night before.

I'm so fed up of this shit. Please don't think this is a begging post, I just need to vent somewhere. I've been visiting an elderly neighbour a lot recently as she

I'm sick of it too. I've never experienced anything like it.

I too have a lot of good professional experience but am getting nowhere and have applied to a lot of positions, tailoring everything for the job. I imagine competition must be fierce, but it is really starting to get to me personally lately....

this is a duplicate thread, the other has more posts on it

:( keep going it will get better, there are just so many people looking for work

Cattastic- it's hard not to let it get you down isn't it?

I have reported this to MNHQ as a double post but they decided to leave it as there were replies on here. Sorry.

I'm so sorry for you, it sounds as though things are very hard right now, and I really, really hope that everything starts to brighten up again soon.

I'm also starting to hate the recession with increased passion as living costs keep dragging me down. DP has a full-time job, and I have a full-time job and a part-time job on weekends, and we still struggle to keep ourselves afloat most months. Living costs are just insane, and I'm tired of losing sleep at night, or having my thoughts interrupted throughout the day, wondering how the hell we are going to possibly afford to pay X,Y and Z bills this month...

It particularly depresses me when I think of how, at my age, my mother had just one full-time job, and could afford a mortgage and a car and still have enough left over for a savings account. I've never in my adult working life had a savings account, I expect my bank manager would think there had been some suspicious activity on my account if I did!

Freya- my mum bought her own house at 21 on her own

I think the positive side of this is that we will be very good at meal planning and creating cheap meals in the future. I certainly will be saving more when things get easier- I've never been frivalous, just bought thd odd thing here and there that I didn't need.

I would keep on my PT job too if I get a FT position. Got to make hay while the sun shines and all that.

Never really understood the effect of a recession until relatively recently, had read about it all but not really taken it onboard! How naive! It really is horrible for so many people and noone is sheltered.

Think it is better not to compare ourselves to our parents - for the sake of our sanity. My parents had a four bed house in a good area, 2 kids, 2 cars, all from only dads wage (not massive) in their late 20s... Its all to do with housing costs in the end isnt it!!!
Noone really wins in the end.