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F!S Anon Meme (the Fifth)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

(LJ's still lagging here and there, good luck.)

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I hated that thread too.

I'm 40, living with my mother, unemployed (thanks economy for jossing my degrees!), and friendless IRL. No kids, no hubbie ever and I'm getting desperate to have those before I'm too old to have kids. I recognize that my mom did her best, I love her, but I don't like her at all--we're total opposites in many ways and I'd never choose her for a friend if I had a choice. She totally fucked up my social skills for one.......She's a true loner at heart.......

I have a BS in biology from the 1990s, a Library Science master degree (it's not just shelving books, yo) and a MS in a health degree program, and I can't even find a job as a secretary due to being overqualified (no shit! REALLY?). But I NEED the money and benefits (health insurance, esp. God, I hate America. It's okay to have social health insurance for the elderly but good forbid the younger, working folks get any.......). I have got to get out of living with my mother before I lose it. I don't even qualify for unemployment 'cause I didn't make enough money last year at my job........WTF????????? What savings I do have is going down fast and my mom's 67 but still working. I feel like such a leech.........

It's really hard for me looking for jobs b/c I've been bullied and mobbed at a former position and now I really hate having coworkers.....I see jobs I want but I have an inner resistance to applying 'cause of anxiety of interviewing (yeah, right, it's usually a blank silence) and of having to deal with coworkers again.

Can't find a job in a field that I have a degree in due to "lack of practical experience" (yeah, right) and even the entry-level jobs to get the experience with are being taken by people with 10, 20, 5, etc. years of experience. On my email list, one librarian said that there were 35 applicants for a 6 hour/wk job........Can't even apply for freakin' internships to get experience 'cause I'm NOT a student--have to be a student.......pisses me off. I'm paying off still, over $16000 in debt for those degrees that everyone said would get me a job when I graduated b/c of retirement, etc. Yeah, no.

Advice: Go for the internships while getting the degree. Didn't know I had to be a student to get one........jesus.......I was busy studying trying to get the degrees and going to summer school, fuck summer school....... Stay far, far away from library science (no opportunities unless already experienced, layoffs extensive, libraries closing, etc.), and nursing.........they lie about nursing too having opportunities for employment..........I know a woman with her nursing from an ivy league school and the best she got was $23000