Yes, you’ve heard me right. I’m unemployed for a year now and getting depressed all the time with no hope on the future for me. I’m well educated but still getting offered like below minimum wage. It’s so hard to get a decent job and make something useful. I feel depressed all the time and this effects my reading ability so much. I can’t focus and go out since I’m broke. Luckily, my family didn’t kick me out yet but I feel like lost all ambition and desire to make something. I fear now, I’m gonna quit from living and be a number on a capitalism’s victim list. I’m struggling to find a reason to live nowadays.
Unemployment is hard. It’s my job to offer legal assistance in my country to unemployed people and it is not a party in the slightest, despite what many say. Most people I see every day are in survival mode. And most of them are the recently unemployed or the on/off unemployed. The many years+ unemployed is another beast even.
It’s not on you. This system needs unemployed people to function. To keep us all down. Over here they are going to cut benefits massively soon. Hundreds of thousands of people will be affected. It will cause poverty. All the while there are no investments to create jobs of course.
Gotta keep going man. It’s hard but we can’t lose anymore people to the capitalist machine. Feel free to share your thoughts whenever.
Thanks for your effort but I tried every possible combination to keep my head up none of them didn’t work. I wasn’t drinking alcohol untill this year. Got alcoholic, spent my savings to shut voices in my head then I lost my desire to work, meeting with new people, getting a girlfriend or having a pet. I just wanted a simple life but ongoing housing crisis and extreme unemployment (a Mediterranean classic!). I can’t continue like this. I’m losing my desire to wake up anymore. I’d be okay to not waking up tomorrow morning. I don’t know why I keep going.
This is what capitalism wants you to feel, so that you can sell your labour for less. Don’t give up. Take up a hobby, participate in a club or charity, learn a new language, socialise more, do anything to give you a purpose. A job isn’t a purpose, it is just a means to it. So focus on things which make you happy and keep looking for a job opportunity.
I know people who also have a good education but struggle to find a good job in this economy, so this is pretty normal. Even living in your parents household is commonplace, since not many can afford their own housing. Believe me, there are a lot of people out there in the exact same situation.
Just remember this one thing: never give up.
Thanks for the message comrade. I’ll be trying to learn Russian or Chinese just out of curiosity
From my experience studying them, both are somewhat difficult (or at least different), but very rewarding. I sincerely wish you good luck!
You have to find purpose outside of waged labor comrade. If you aren’t already, do some volunteer work, go to local party meetings if you can. Just do something. If you are lucky you might even find paid work through the people you meet doing this.
I’m sorry you’re going through this. I spent just a few months far from home and jobless in an extended stay and I have never felt so awful.
It’s a systemic torture comrade. My local leftist parties are doing not much job but I support them anyway. Maybe an event in 3 months since I’m living in a rural city. My city doesn’t offer much but you’re correct maybe I can find another office job.
Work is the last thing in the world you should be looking to for either purpose or a metric of your worth. You are human, your value is inherent.
Can you do computer shit? You could always bid out for 1099 work on dice.com or something. Get a little cash in the door, enough to go out to a restaurant or pitch in around the house.
I’m a software engineer actually. I’ll look into dice.com is it available in my region or not. Thanks comrade
For some income, you could also try https://www.upwork.com/
Sure np
Wow, I’m really sorry, comrade.
I appreciate your contributions here, and really wish I can give you hope. Education is a treasure, and I wish I can pay you and others for your time and trouble. I’m very fortunate to have people who can help me too. I hope you stick with us, I really value you a lot.
Sorry to make you sad comrade.
This place really helped me when I got depressed and lost hope sometimes. The only social media app that I use is this. Others literally a hell if you’re depressed like instagram shows all depressed suicidal content and they’re literally profiting off depression!
Thanks for effort comrade. I’m not seeking any money I know some people need money more than me like people in Gaza. I’m just fading.
I wanna stay here and sometimes darkest moments of depression hits you so hard like I’m having for days now.
I don’t wanna betray the girl child revolution either. Thanks for your comment comment. really made my day
Sorry to make you sad comrade
No sorries needed! I’m sorry the world is such a mess and that’s sad. We’re siblings.
I also only use Lemmy.
I know you aren’t seeking money, I just wish I had more to share. If wishes were horses, right?
I read here when I feel sad. The comradeship buoys the spirit. We remember what it’s about, here. I wish you the best. 🫂♥️
I appreciate your efforts comrade thanks a lot 🙏🏼
You are so, so welcome. And you are loved and appreciated here.
My suggestion would be volunteering with a local charity. It can give you a sense of purpose and help build connections sometimes.
I will do it. I live in a rural city full of fascist. To have better opsec I’m underground for now.
I’m struggling to find a reason to live
You don’t need one. It’s okay to not be okay. Try living life like you’re already dead. What’s the worst that could happen?
I’m doing it for a year now but my mental health didn’t got any better
I’ve been doing it for four, and most of it has been pretty miserable and hopeless, just not quite enough to go visit the bridge that one last time. There were also some decent times here and there as well. And fairly recently I discovered something that I can see myself spending years on if I ever get back to a materially stable place. So I’ll keep doing the barest of minimums that I can handle until it either somehow works out for the better or kills me. That’s literally the depressed person’s trump card - “if I die - I die, oh well”.
When you’ve been wet and cold for a long time it becomes hard to even imagine that you were ever warm and cozy in the first place. But it only takes one good evening in front of a fire to bring that back. So just keep doing what you can to find your fireplace, even if all you can do is lay down on the floor and cry. Maybe someone will hear it and come by with a portable heater c:
Thanks for your words comrade. Literally, I’m living like If I die - I die because what is the other option that I can do? Work? Rejected. Friends? They abandoned me because of my political views. Family? They want to make me another cog in the machine with low paying jobs.
I’m living with this mentality but survived somehow.
survived somehow
And that’s the only thing that matters. Anything else can change in the most unpredictable ways, as long as you’re around to experience it c:
