*DEAD* i hate being POOR AND DEPRESSED

[Brymo]

listening to their song Come Down (acustic)

as of right...... now

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: Brymo

Originally posted by: fatbaby
Right lets blame bush for the economy...

Get a job at subway or the movies. It shouldn't be too hard.

oh and it is too hard, been there 2 times each... must not want me

Sounds like you have some things to work on. I'm not going to speculate, but have you done any research into "how to" interview or things like that. Maybe you're overlooking the obvious. Just keep your head up and keep trying.

 

[Brymo]

oh i am not even getting called in for an interview

but ya the jobs i did have.. they loved me, i am a very hard worker

 

[Mill]

It is real easy to get a job here, so the your local economy must suck.

 

[ReiAyanami]

deploy brain. attain scholarships. goto college. apply FASFA

 

[Brymo]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
deploy brain. attain scholarships. goto college. apply FASFA

been doing it

thanks!

 

[Kalpana]

aii..wish I could win the lottery. The other day I got one of those fraud letters saying I won $645,000 in a lottery I never entered. If only that could happen, I wouldn't be in a hundreds of thousans dollar debt paying for education. Grin...know how it feels to be poor.

 

[her209]

Drugs???

 

[Brymo]

sorry to hear that

 

[edro]

Sad? Depressed? These guys can help.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: edro13
Sad? Depressed? These guys can help.

i tried their services. didn't work for me

 

[syberscott]

Originally posted by: KGB
I was poor throughtout most of my life. Since my family immigrated here, we started out with nothing. We pride in the fact that we didn't use food stamps or medicaid... govt resources to have a better life. It was hard work, we deprived ourselves extremities we wanted. We never went to trips, graduation ceremonies, it meant the time my family and I worked to gain money would be to waste.. so we can have a taste of the high life. Only recently have we bought a house ( took 13 years in fact) and I bought a 2001 model car. (and my computers.. well I found in the garbage..)

I had no shame in being poor, wearing payless shoes.... I would usually take a shopping cart from waldbauns.. search around brooklyn for cans... bottles.. in apartment complexes.. I would raise about $100 on a good day. I must tell you I felt depressed at your age also.. not having girls..cars..nintendos.. but I never wanted them or needed them. Your depression is only fuled by what you don't have (and don't need anyhow) My suggestion.. do the BEST in school... think about what you CAN DO instead of what you want to do.. or want to have like everyone else. Its always a dilemma when a person wants to be an individual but also wants to be like everyone else. If you can get better internally.. not with objects that mean nothing once they are purchased. Make yourself worth something.

That's pretty inspirational. I think we could all take a lesson from that.

 

[prvteye2003]

boo hoo. You are only 17. try gong to college and make something of yourself. YOU are the only one that can turn it around. You think you are the only one this is happening to? Believe me, it doen't get any easier. It gets worse before it gets better.

 

[tcsenter]

The cause of the recession may not be Bush's fault, but trickle down economics doesn't work. Giving money to the rich doesn't help the poor.

lol! No wonder you think trickle down economics doesn't work, you don't understand it. Let's see if I can 'splain it...

If I'm a "rich person", and I pay $50,000 in federal income and capital gains taxes, the government didn't 'give' me the money on which I'm paying the taxes. I generated the wealth myself through my own private enterprise.

If the government gives me a tax break, so that I'm now paying $40,000 in federal income and capital gains taxes, the government didn't "give" me a flat nickel. It simply didn't take as much from what I earned.

See how that works?

Now imagine then, that in a truly ideal society, every person shoulders their fair share of the costs of government equally. Everyone pays the same dollar amount. That would be the ultimate in "fairness", since nobody would be paying more or less than anyone else.

But we have people who pay virtually nothing in taxes, nothing in income tax, perhaps some sales and excise taxes. So, in exchange for their 'contribution' to the costs of government, they get to breath the same air, drink the same water, have access to all the same roads, send their kids to the same public schools, enjoy the same fire and police protection, enjoy the same national defense, have access to the same emergency rooms, access the same national parks and public treasures, etc. etc. ad nauseum, as me.

Who is getting more bang for their government-funding buck? I would say the poor are getting the deal of the century.

 

[jagr10]

I hate reading about or listening to people who constantly complain about being poor and depressed. Snap out of it and don't make excuses for it and start taking drugs. Everyone thinks the solution to solving depression is a drug. Well...you're posting on here about being depressed so your dumb arse drugs aren't working!
Get out, meet people, jack off, do something!

 

[kermalou]

THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND STOP POSTING THIS BVLLSHIT ON AN INTERNET BOARD.

IT WONT COME TO YOU, YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE.

AND STOP BLAMING OTHER PEOPLE. YOU CAN ONLY BLAME YOURSELF FOR YOUR MISERY.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: fritolays
wtf... i'm POSITIVE you will find a job someplace if you really tried. go to your local grocery store, small shops, anything, fast food joints, restaurants, you will find something.

I applied at 22 places this summer (I'm 17 also). No dice. Jobs are incredibly difficult to come by for teenagers right now, cause all the white-collar adults have lost their jobs and are taking the service jobs to make ends meet.

 

[jagr10]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: fritolays
wtf... i'm POSITIVE you will find a job someplace if you really tried. go to your local grocery store, small shops, anything, fast food joints, restaurants, you will find something.

I applied at 22 places this summer (I'm 17 also). No dice. Jobs are incredibly difficult to come by for teenagers right now, cause all the white-collar adults have lost their jobs and are taking the service jobs to make ends meet.

It all depends on where you live. I visited Indianapolis last year and there were "help wanted" signs everywhere. People just don't want to work there I guess. The post office was even hiring at $12/hr with no experience. WTF is wrong with people there? Maybe they make more selling drugs?

 

[Ryan]

I'm sorry, but you're doing something wrong if you can't get a job - maybe you're not acting very enthusiastic when turning in your application, maybe you're not following up as much as you should be (IE, calling the employer to see if they had considered you for the job). Sure, businesses need to hire people when necessary, but it's your responsibility to convince them that they need you working for them. If you follow that mindset everytime you look for a job, you're almost guaranteed to be hired.

When I was 16, I decided that I needed job. The first place I went to was the Papa John's pizza store down the street, and I walked in with a good attitude and a shit-eatin' grin on my face and told the manager that I needed a job, and I was willing to do anything needed to get it. I told them that I was a hard worker (provided proof, gpa, references from people, etc), and after I filled the application out, I was told that I was to start work that night.

Last december, whenI applied at Gateway, I followed to same formula (but I classed it up, made it more professional). At the end of my first interview, I was told that a second and third interview was not needed, and all I had to do was go take a piss test and I was in.

Now, these have been the only two jobs I have EVER applied for, but I was pretty much hi8red on the spot for both. It's all about your presentation when trying to get hired, and if you present yourself right, it'll work almost every time.

Sorry kid, but you're doing something wrong.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: fritolays wtf... i'm POSITIVE you will find a job someplace if you really tried. go to your local grocery store, small shops, anything, fast food joints, restaurants, you will find something.

I applied at 22 places this summer (I'm 17 also). No dice. Jobs are incredibly difficult to come by for teenagers right now, cause all the white-collar adults have lost their jobs and are taking the service jobs to make ends meet.

You need to focus on places that have a high turnover rate (IE - fast food places, pizza joints, etc), and be persistent. Just turning an application in is not enough, most employers don't care if you just turn an application in, they get tonnes of them. Getting a job means you need to make an effort to meet the employer, establish rappor (sp?), and be enthusiastic. Also, don't be picky about where you want to work, that's one of the number one reasons people don't end up working in the first place.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Millennium
Can't say I feel sorry for you. I did until you said the Economy was Bush's fault, then I just suddenly began to think that I don't care. Sorry, but I am being honest.

Bwhahaha, my thoughts exactly

 

[tcsenter]

I applied at 22 places this summer (I'm 17 also). No dice. Jobs are incredibly difficult to come by for teenagers right now, cause all the white-collar adults have lost their jobs and are taking the service jobs to make ends meet.

I'm not sure if this is true in your case, but I was reading in the newspaper an article about a guy who had to move back in with his parents at 30-something. He was a financial analyst who got whacked during one of the lay-offs at some big brokerage. Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, one of those places.

He had went through his savings, went through his unemployment, and was forced to move in with his parents because he couldn't find a job.

Wait, let me clarify, he couldn't find a job doing what he had been doing - a financial analyst.

I don't have an iota of sympathy for the man. There are plenty of jobs out there, its just that some people feel they're too good to do them. This is extremely common among those who find themelves unemployed today. Tough sh-t.

When times get tough, you take whatever the hell you can get. That's how people make it during downturns in the economy. That's how they prevent their homes from being foreclosed on. That's how they avoid bankruptcy. That's how they make ends meet, no matter how meagerly.

My father worked in the auto industry and there were times he was laid-off for several months. While his buddies were swilling beer and buying lottery tickets by the fistfull waiting to get called back to work, refusing to accept or even consider taking a job which might pay less, racking up more debt and falling behind on their mortgages after their unemployment ran out, my father was out working at a car wash and collecting scrap metal to sell. He often worked two full-time minimum wage jobs to pay the bills because sitting around on his ass pretending to look for work wasn't an option.

There are like five full pages of help wanted ads in our local paper and we have above average unemployment. No, they're not CEO positions, but its work.

 

[Wingznut]

Ok, this may seem harsh... But I think you need some serious perspective, Brymo.

If you define "poor" as being unable to buy "something cool" at the age of 17, you haven't the slightest clue as to what POOR really is. Don't belittle the people who are truely "poor" with your immature rants.

Here's a hint for your life... Happiness has very little to do with being able to buy "something cool." If you are defining your life by how much "cool" stuff you have, then you are in for a rough life.

If you can't find ANY job, then it's not Bush's fault.

Make good choices, don't blame others for your problems, and be responsible for your actions.

 

[Brymo]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Ok, this may seem harsh... But I think you need some serious perspective, Brymo.

If you define "poor" as being unable to buy "something cool" at the age of 17, you haven't the slightest clue as to what POOR really is. Don't belittle the people who are truely "poor" with your immature rants.

Here's a hint for your life... Happiness has very little to do with being able to buy "something cool." If you are defining your life by how much "cool" stuff you have, then you are in for a rough life.

If you can't find ANY job, then it's not Bush's fault.

Make good choices, don't blame others for your problems, and be responsible for your actions.

haha no no you guys.. you have blown this all out of what it was meant to be...

first off the first few posts were just me venting, plus for all that has tried to help, i thank you

for the ones that read that i am fine now, and still COMPLAING about a post that is done.. for that i give you a HUGE fvck you

for all that think i am just complaining actually i am... but i have reasons, i didnt want to explain them all..

for a whole year, how much you think MY WHOLE HOUSEHOLD MAKES!?!? around 12,000 a year... ya fun money to spend you know on the things we dont really need like food, things to wear, school stuff ya know thats nothing...

you all got mad (well the bush lovers) because of the things i said.. and for those who think i was not 'understanding' what was said look at WHO said it first please

just all in all most of you understand, and some just dont get it because you HAVE jobs...

and about college? i get a free ride

free food, and everything...

i have thought alot about this poor thing, and it comes out of YOUR guys taxes, and i love to get done on myself anything that i can before i pay...

so i thank you, tax payers!

 

[Brymo]

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