My boyfriend has been down in the dumps recently as his employment’s about to run out and he just applied to the same place I’m working. Needless to say, one of us will have to buck up and get a better job or we’re not going to survive at the apartment. Less-than-minimum pay as the job is strictly part time unless you work in the office five-seven days a week. At this job you’re lucky to get more than a handful of shifts a month, which is why we were lucky to get a cheap studio. It doesn’t help the office is sometimes difficult in your situation and I often times wonder if they do it on purpose to make people leave. It’s a small company afterall, it would do them well to expand and hire more people to work schedules instead of this “elite small team” they try going for.
We’re both worried, horribly. They’ve kept my checks from me this month from deliberate misunderstanding, bf’s unemployment is running out so we might not have rent by the time he gets hired and gets his first paycheck which he said he’d use on the licence needed to keep the job (which they’re difficult with habitually).
I personally don’t think I should rant about our relationship here, but even though it’s pretty well, I’m scared he’ll break if we lose the place. And after he finally decided to stick with me instead of letting me bask in fear on which girl he’ll leave me for. Now he knows I’ve known all along that he was emotionally unfaithful until a few months ago and for now I trust he won’t try leaving me for them. No. Now I’m worried he’ll try and get me to leave him for my best friend who’s always liked me and who he thinks would be better for me. Sigh. Stop. I want to stay with the guy I’m with, the one who we both put so much effort into despite everything. I would never have gotten, and stayed, on my feet if not for him. I want, and need to be, emotionally better for him. If I don’t get my act together and get a solid job, I fear the worst. And I know it’s not entirely my fault that jobs are hard to find–one place I almost had a chance with was racially biased so I wasn’t taken seriously. Some of the stores around keep hiring other people because I get to it too late.
Good God…
He needs to help me apply to the places he suggested because those ones are more career oriented and I’ve still only ever had one job. Yet he’s too depressed or fearful to apply to an old job, which he could easily get back, or any place, really. For once hes using standards but it’s completely the wrong time to worry about that. But while waiting for orientation he gets to look good for N and talk to her all about it and relate to her issues… Why can’t that ever be me…
Sigh, okay… it’s chaotic. I’m not sure how things will turn out. Okay, let’s pray. If I get a solid job SOON, everything will be fine.
