You know you're long-term unemployed when .... (employment, degree, job, companies)

[CodeViolationMcEnroe]

• The highlight of your day is waking up and frantically going through the new listings on Indeed and LinkedIn
• You avoid social situations because you're afraid of people asking whether you have a job yet
• You check your phone every 2 minutes to make sure you didn't miss a call from a company
• You get nostalgia thinking about that summer job you had in high school
• You start pawing through the spam folder of your email account to see if maybe you missed an email from a company

[marilyn220]

Sad.

[wireyourworld]

Aside from the social situations I did all of the above even when employed but looking for another job.

[Exhibit_B]

it'll get better.

[L'Artiste]

-you wonder if you are ever going to get a job
-you wonder how you got here
-you don't want to see/speak to certain family members because you feel like a failure
-you feel doomed
-you stop buying clothes,food, and other things you use to enjoy
-you consider killing yourself since death is cheaper than living

[CodeViolationMcEnroe]

Originally Posted by L'Artiste

-you consider killing yourself since death is cheaper than living

Yep.

- you start Googling "Over-the-counter pharamceuticals that can cause lethal overdose"

[Roman77]

Originally Posted by L'Artiste

-you wonder if you are ever going to get a job
-you wonder how you got here
-you don't want to see/speak to certain family members because you feel like a failure
-you feel doomed
-you stop buying clothes,food, and other things you use to enjoy
-you consider killing yourself since death is cheaper than living

I ask myself that question every day.

[Exhibit_B]

Originally Posted by L'Artiste

-you wonder if you are ever going to get a job
-you wonder how you got here
-you don't want to see/speak to certain family members because you feel like a failure
-you feel doomed
-you stop buying clothes,food, and other things you use to enjoy
-you consider killing yourself since death is cheaper than living

i've been unemployed for up to a year before, fortunately i lived off some savings i had to stay afloat, but even still unemployment isn't a reason to feel totally hopeless. you have to think positively and put forth your best everyday. the doom and gloom sentiment is a bit much.

[marilyn220]

Originally Posted by Exhibit_B

i've been unemployed for up to a year before, fortunately i lived off some savings i had to stay afloat, but even still unemployment isn't a reason to feel totally hopeless. you have to think positively and put forth your best everyday. the doom and gloom sentiment is a bit much.

You really have no right to tell someone who's been out of work for a long time how they should "feel".

When all people are being offered are low wage jobs, then not even getting those, it takes a toll on your psyche. I don't blame people for feeling the way they do.

What's messed up is that so many unemployed people believe that if they go back to school to get another degree, perform volunteer work, work free internships, and all this other nonsense they read on the internet that it will up their chances for when the economy supposedly gets better.

Well, it's NOT going to get better and all that extra crap you do still won't change your chances, if you don't know anyone in the company that can get you in. I've been reading that the recession ended in 2010 and companies are hiring like crazy. Yeah, they are, but not YOU. Companies paying decent or liveable wages are hiring other EMPLOYED people not people out of work.

The only people not complaining about being out of work are those in the top tier class brackets.

Walmart will hire the longterm unemployed though with no problems.

[L'Artiste]

Originally Posted by CodeViolationMcEnroe

Yep.

- you start Googling "Over-the-counter pharamceuticals that can cause lethal overdose"

its cyanide i find.. but still holding on until that point.. i did hear about a couple who used helium, who knew balloons could be killers