Cheer up. If things are not working out for you, maybe a bigger change is needed. I sincerely wish that things will work out better for you.

If the local economy is not good in your state, maybe you should change a state (obviously, there are some costs associated with it). I don’t know whether it’s practical, but maybe if you could get into some positions that require minimal amount of skills, but would enable you to acquire more skills as time goes on, then things would work out better for you. Such jobs probably include many financial-related jobs (escrow assistant/agent, mortgage assistant, bank teller). The other area that I would suggest is medical-related jobs that require minimal skills, such as pharmacy assistant, medical technicians, healthcare insurance processor, etc.

Of course, saying is much easier than actually doing it. I wish you the best luck.

Please also send me a private email with your mail address. I would like to send you a Christmas card with a small gift. I feel that’s the least that I can do for you. And remember God always love you.

Best regards.

P.S. Maybe others may think I’m stupid or crazy. But I believe every word that you wrote.

I have a liberal arts degree (intended to go to law school, couldn’t afford the escalating cost) and graduated during a recession in a locally more depressed economy. (Two-thirds of new graduates were leaving the state for jobs elsewhere, and an active temporary market arose for out-of-state newspapers and job listings.)

By graduating, I lost my on-campus janitor job (reserved for enrolled students) and had to scramble to replace the lost income, so I took a menial job with someone I knew who had work available. Did that for many years until a health crisis put me in hospital for two months and semi-ambulartory (needed a walker) for a year after that. As I was unable to work and had lost my income, I had to move cross-country to live with family until I could return to work.

When I was able to work again, I found mytself in another locally depressed economy, and with no marketable skills and no career-related experience. So now I work in a convenience store where I have to deal with all sorts of walking social problems (street people, gangbangers, under-the-bridge dwellers, sex offenders living around the corner, etc).

I have no hope for a better life and often slither home from work cursing my miserable existence.