Reply #61: welcome to my world

[northernlights]

I haven't had a "real" job since 2002, when my 20 year hi-tech career crashed. The highlights?

I've wiped out my retirement savings between shit jobs.

Not one person to look at my home for sale (on which I'd be taking a huge loss).

I've taken on debt going back to school for a new career in health care, spending 2 years busting my ass to keep a 4.0 average in pre-med and clinical science.

Only to have stafford loans cut off halfway through the program, due to "too many credits."

And now, due to health INSURANCE reform, hospitals are *cutting* health care staff, so there's no job at the end anyway.

No way to finish to finish the program; no way to pay off the loans.

I keep putting one foot in front of the other in order to care for my fur family. But finding them new homes is my next step. Suicide increasingly looks like the only way through this morass.