My recently laid-off best friend call me this evening

[Tsiyu]

69. It's crazy, because you feel like you should be freaking out

But then you know if you do, you only waste energy you need to look for work.

Thank you so much for your support. I have sent out so many resumes and applications over the past six months and this is the first interview so far. Trying to get out of the chef gigs, for many reasons. A former boss called me twice on two seperate occasions at 6 in the morning begging me to come bake, but I am just not going to break my body down any more. So changing careers is crazy right now. And, like you said, some companies are so invasive in their hiring process, I just won't go there.

But I have received so much gunk in my inbox that it just galls me - people actually exploiting people who are honestly looking for work. It's sickening.

Talked to my best friend today whose son and bf are both currently laid off, and they are both depressed. "I've got a house full of depressed men," she said. But they were able to get food stamps recently, and she said at least they have a kitchen full of good food. It makes a difference when there's no money coming in and you don't have anything decent to eat either. You get discouraged and weak eating pancakes all week.

It's an endess cycle of despair. So she is trying to remind her men that at least they can eat well. Hope your friend will accept that help if it comes to it.

I hope you find fulltime, good-paying work soon, FIrstlight. And I hope your friend does as well. You are very talented.