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[doggereler]

If I'm honest, and I try to avoid that because it's just no fun, but if I'm honest I'm not having much fun at the moment. Being out of work is frustrating, and being in a foreign country while out of work is like having your pockets picked while you're lying on the ground after being kicked in the balls by an angry butcher. Things are bad enough,

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[sun__king]

Would offer a hug but am wiping some icky stuff off my monitor...

Mind you, you now have time for that fab book you've always wanted to write... or learning a new skill, how about the drums then..(I need a good drummer)

[legal_beagle555]

A little late to this, but I just wanted to comment in case you still have an active email attached to this account.

I didn't see this all those months ago because I was on hiatus from LJ, because I was dealing with my own version of bitter foreigner in a crap US job market, and I felt it was better to not subject the people I'd grown to like a lot here to that.

I really understand how particularly frustrating and frightening it feels to be in this situation- I lived it for several months after graduating law school. People I knew from school would complain about how they didn't have enough "time off" between sitting for the Bar exam and beginning their first jobs, and I'd seriously just want to ask them if they wanted to go on vacation while I did their job, collected their paycheck and used it to pay my bills.

I really hope things have turned around for you. I don't know what help I could possibly be, but if you can think of anything, don't be afraid to let me know.

[doggereler]

Hey Cath! I don't, as it turns out, check my email account attached to Livejournal much at all, so many apologies for the late reply. Incredibly nice of you to think of me and be so supportive. I sometimes forget I have good friends here. I remember your search for work and the upheavals you've gone through, my troubles are quite gentle in comparison.

Fortunately, I have just accepted a job at a local company, only 20 minutes from here. It's a great place, an interesting position and better than the one I was let go from. I've been doing a few weeks of contract work for an ex-boss of mine too, so money isn't as bad as it could have been. In all, I'm in a great place right now.

It was a year from layoff to rehire and that makes me gasp. But it wasn't as bad as it could have been, Michelle has been incredibly supportive and in all I'm pretty lucky.

How are you these days? Tell me news.