Well, here goes ...

So this is my very first blog. I guess we'll see how this goes.

I'm currently unemployed and have been since March. There are 50 people applying for every one job, and I guess so far I haven't been top of the heap. I've gotten lots of polite refusals, though. 'Dear fill-in-the-blank, even though you're overqualified for this position, you're not quite overqualified enough. Please reapply when you've wasted thousands of dollars getting an AA degree to do filing. Sincerely, We-know-there-are-desperate-degreeholders-out-there.' Why do you need a degree to answer phones, write letters, and do filing? Can someone explain this to me?

I have people telling me I need to go back to school. Great, I'd love to. However, school is not free. Classes cost money. I can't pay the bills I have now. How do I pay for more schooling? Have you ever tried to wade through the morass of getting the federal government or state to pay for it? It's nearly impossible, and now of course the education budget is slashed even further. By the time I could get approved to go back to school, I'll have used up all my unemployment and be living in a box in the alley. It's really hard to study when you live in a box. The lighting sucks. It's noisy. When it rains, your house melts.

Anybody got any ideas out there? I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall...