I Just Got Laid Off
Moved to a LCOL area and took a pay cut to buy a fixer-upper from a family friend. The finances were too good to pass up. I was never going to afford a house where I lived, even with my higher pay. Over 2 years, I repaired this place and then the HVAC system died just last week, after I put it on the market. It's 20 years old, so it will have to be fully replaced to modern refrigerant. I have some savings, but not that kind of fuck you money, so window units it is. Now I have to do an as-is sale, which ate into my equity, and my job lost a big contract through no fault of my own, but I am the one who gets laid off. Nobody is buying out here anymore since everything has gone apeshit in the last 5 months. And there are no other jobs out here, you guys. I'm low key panicking. Like...what's the fucking point anymore? I'm stuck in a house I can no longer afford, in a place I HATE because I thought selling this house was my ticket out of here. I wish I could go back in time and choke myself in utero 😭
I have been turned down from every job, because I am either overqualified or don't have enough transferrable skills in their eyes. So here I am, with 2 degrees and decades of experience, being rejected from goddamn Burger King. It's 2008 all over again. I don't think I have another economic collapse in me, y'all.