I think I'm ready for more rejection in the job world. It just sucks because I was applying for so many jobs - office and retail, and I only got one 2nd interview and that was the place I'm at now (where the hours really suck).

It is different now, askye. You are working - even if it isn't a lot. You now have the ability to say no, because you are offered something worse.

And I realized I sent out the resume but didn't put my current work experience on there.

hee Pork Chop! He sounds like a great dog!

Good on you, askye. I know it's hard.

It's so hard, askye. Keep it up.

bonny, Pork Chop looks like a total charmer.

Also, bonny, I've been working my way through the book you sent me, and I've figured out what a lot of my "scripts" are. I'm just about to the part where they tell you how to deal with them.

I want a cookie - I dealt with my budgeting stuff. Unfortunately, I do not have a spare dollar on the paycheck I get tomorrow to buy a cookie. Being an adult sucks. I have really screwed myself moving into this place alone. I can't really afford it if I want to pay off my debt in any reasonable amount of time. There are no doors so I can't have a roommate, plus I'm pretty wary of having a roommate in a shotgun again. I haven't signed a lease yet, but I'm supposed to sign a year lease, and AND I love my landlady and living by myself and don't want to leave. Plus, the idea of moving again makes me want to go fetal and cry.

So I'm left with trying to increase my income, but the idea of finding and working another job is absolutely not pleasant. I could maybe be a receptionist on the weekend at a gym, something relatively easy and low stress, but I need my weekends to recharge.

I don't know. I feel stuck. I've got some clothes to take to a resale place or two, and could put together a box of books for Powells, but those are stopgap measures. I'm trying to build up a buffer so the first paycheck of the month isn't so miserable, but I haven't gotten anywhere.

I'm mostly venting, but will also take suggestions for things I could do to bring in extra money or cut costs.

Which book are you working, smonster?

Are any of us near Cranford, NJ?

I'm not near there now, but I know the area.

Also, bonny, I've been working my way through the book you sent me, and I've figured out what a lot of my "scripts" are. I'm just about to the part where they tell you how to deal with them.

I'm so glad you are getting through it, smonster. It really is the best of all the books I've read/used in my work.

Just as an aside, I worked the desk at a gym on weekends for a couple of years. I enjoyed it...got to study for my graduate program, and ended up getting coaching clients out of it.

I'm having some financial-cranky days, too, smonster. I keep trying to type about them or talk about them here, and I just wind up deleting the post and not posting it. I'm going to take the hint and just accept I don't really want to talk about it, except to say I'm feeling somewhat similar, and you have my love and sympathy.