Discouraged and concerned. I am unemployed and have been

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since December. Since I am a senior, I find the openings of interest to me are almost nil. Each week, several times, I check Monster and Craigslist for openings. I find it very frustrating that the job descriptions in most cases are so vague. I have sent only a few resumes.

Like many, the frustration is unbelievable. I am not able to commute long distances nor am I able to find listings that offer a 4 day week. At my age, I know my limitations.

To say that I have almost given up is true. Today, I did my weekly filing, I believe it is the second or third for Extended Benefits. There is now an on-line form to fill out with your weekly activity. I missed it before as it is printed at the bottom of the form I click on to do the weekly filing.

My activity seems to be the same week after week. Networking for me is now stale. Everyone I know is aware that I am trying to find something that will challenge me but not exhaust me to the point that I cannot do the job.

This past week I sent out 1 Resume and of course, I have not heard anything. The job description is vague and the company unknown. How am I to figure out anything about the company, how can I really see if this is of interest? Maybe I sent them a resume before? Who knows!

I know employers are now in the drivers seat but I wish their ads were a little more helpful.

I can imagine filling out this form with the same information week after week. If I did not need the money so critically, I'd just forget it. I know they don't want people to use Extended Benefits as an easy check but I now feel frustrated that there is yet another form to fill out.

Today the message said that the form was not available on Sunday. I guess I'll have to do it tomorrow.

I don't want to get into any trouble by not doing this form but to tell you the truth, I'm really tired of the same old-same old. Sick of the forms, tired of trying to read between the very few lines on job listings.

I can't even find some of my old notes, it seems to have been forever that I have been following this same path.

Help me feel a little better, anyone else just plain tired of all this? Maybe I'm just having a senior spell of self pity or something.