Fell on my ass, need advice from parent types
Long story extremely short, my family and I are from Alaska but I do not have relations with said family. My family is full of addicts and I first got kicked out at 15. Now I’m 29. (Anchorage)
I’ve been on my own since and have done well for myself until 2023.
In 2023 I had worked my way to the oilfields but after being assaulted (I’m a woman) at the oilfields and after having experienced it before, I couldn’t handle it. I lost my job and eventually lost my housing and vehicle (got stolen).
After such in All honesty my depression took two years of my life. I lived off of my savings until I couldn’t anymore and borrowed someone’s car to DoorDash until I got 2k. Bought a piece of shit car but otherwise I can’t with any honesty that I tried to not fall into the pit I’ve got myself in. I just kept falling deeper into sadness. (No drug/alch abuse just mental lol)
Which brings us to now. Im mentally good again. In January of last year I took a line cook job in Montana that offered me housing and I am still here, but I want to come home.
Job experience wise I’ve been: a Laborer, a deckhand Salmon fishing x3, a deckhand doing crew transport, labor/transport at the slope, Equipment Operator for 2 years (no certs), Maintenance, a Caretaker for older folks with Dementia, Parkinson’s and Althimerz, FOH manager more than once, server, bartender, and a cook.
With the experience I have, how would you go about easing your way back into life in Alaska? I’m not where I want to be in life but I have not had enough life outside of survival mode. My biggest issue is that I can not get the long term jobs (slope/corporate) that I know of without first having housing in Alaska, and I cannot get housing without first having a job.
I’m a self isolator and due to such I do not have the support network needed. If you were me and wanted to come home, how would you go about it?