Another blog about being unemployed??? Aww MAN!!!

Hey, it's my blog, guys...if you don't want to read it I'm sure there's a Candy Crush level you need to clear, or something.  

As of two days ago, I cleared 21 months of being jobless.  From April 26 2012 until now, I have only worked one (1) day and though the IRS would say I earned around $48 for that day, I saw not one dime.

That's right:  Not.  One.  Dime.

So to say I'm frustrated is, to me, the understatement of the decade.  In 25 years of being in the workforce I have been unemployed off and on but never for this sort of protracted amount of time and never without compensation of some sort.  If you are familiar with this blog you know of the reason why this unemployed periuod is without any type of unemployment compensation.  In addition to being fired when I applied for unemployment I was denied and, when I attempted to appeal my unemployment in order to get some money to "live" on, my previous employer contested it and with an attorney going after someone who was pro se it was a losing effort.  So I am stuck between the rock and the hard place.

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I have a lot of bitterness to say the least.  Not so much with being fired because the person who engineered that particular bit of evilness has himself been shown the door for events described in the previous entry. It is however a hollow victory.  Even with that justice...karma...or whatever you call it it doesn't change my situation at all.  I'm still unemployed.  And even though the person who caused my detachment from my last job is too and he really doesn't need to work due to a pension he is drawing from a previous employment.

Frustration is growing.  If you've got a job...even a shitty job...keep it.  Gone are the days where you can drop the keys on the boss's desk and storm out.  The job market...at least in Tulsa...sucks balls.  Given the fact that it's a football being kicked around by politicians it can't be much better elsewhere in the country.