any DUer who, or whose immediate family, is unemployed, please check in

[Lerkfish]

By immediate I mean spouse, father, mother, sister, brother or adult child. By unemployed I mean you've actively sought work and have been unsuccessful.
I don't wish to count temporary or contract positions less than 2 months in duration.

please both post a post and rec the thread.

I just want to get a rough idea.

I'll start: I'm unemployed for a year.
I was refused unemployment because I quit a job that was not paying its employees a year ago, two months after being laid off from a profession that is dying.

I'm over 50 and have made over 850 job applications. (I keep records).

I've applied in every state that had a job, was willing to move.