well, just got fired. what now, bankruptcy?

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I take 60mg of vyvanse every day with 10mg of selegiline to counteract some of the negative effects of the amphetamines and avoid a dopamine depletion rebound effect, which is a term you can't google since it's the only way I can currently describe it based on my research. I've applied for lots of companies before, but holy hell, it takes some kind of stoned Nikola Tesla to get through the usajobs.gov's afb/army/dhs/navy career/resume profile setup pages. I got about 10% there, and they make you retype all of the information out of your resume into a form instead of parsing a flat file for keywords. Saigon, s**t -- I need a cigarette now.

If I tried to sell my house, I'd have to ask the lender to take a loss of almost half the mortgage amount due to property values dropping. I would like to see a big return of agriculture and industry in Florida instead of most of the F! economy based solely on services (mostly retail) and tourism. It's looking like folks were right when they speculated that bulldozing farms to build subdivisions without giving all these new families places to work, roads to drive on, or power to use, was a bad idea.

I'm really, really... touchy about my stuff, all my stuff. I'm pretty much unable to leave this place unless I could hire a professional moving company to copy the layout exactly. A lot of the furniture and electronics are custom built, as are all the computers and most of the wiring/cabling, as is soon to be the plumbing, which is a separate issue. Plus, I love all the plants I have growing here in my garden; I get very emotionally attached to them...

If a hunter-gatherer from, say, 70,000 years ago were frozen and brough back to life, he or she could understand internal combustion engines in a snap, piece of cake, no problem. Radio waves, where the waves don't propagate through a medium, or perhaps, in a sense, take their own medium with them, having elements of both wave and particle, that would take a little while, but in short order, she would understand it about as well as any college physics major, 'so you guys don't exactly know all the details either, but it does seem to work.' Unemployment, that's the issue she would really struggle with. Because there is work and activities that need to be done, and there are people willing to do it. In fact, more than just willing to do it, many people want a job so much they can taste it! The whole situation just does not seem to make any sense. And then she would get it. It's about social hierarchy.

Ivanov, it's a tough situation. Maybe just the approach of a variety of goals that are roughly short-term, medium-term, long-term. And keep making rolls of the dice on each.

You might also give the retro-scene some thought. Games and emulators are freely available under public licence for any retro-system you care to mention (Sega/Nintendo/Atari/Commodore et al.). See my thread in the games forum for more info:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt108745.html

A lot of the people involved in the retro-community are professional programmers/engineers who grew up with these systems. With any luck, you might find a few career opportunities that way.

You just can't count on it. You can mention that you're currently looking for a job. The trick is to do it matter-of-factly, and that's hard. It's hard for me.

The person might suss out how bad it is (because you're certainly not the only one!), but keep it understated. Try not to jump friendship levels (which I also have a tendency to do). If so, just like any social mistake, one can usually recover with grace and the recovery is usually to just go sideways. At least that's the theory! Like anything to do with human beings--you, me, everyone else--we are simply too unpredictable for any social move to work all the time.

We are born to be social beings but our conditions say otherwise.

Yeah, ain't that the truth.

Well, we've have to keep working at it. And every so often, the magic happens and it's so easy when it happens.

So let us work hard to ensure that we're prepared to let magic happen to us.

Well, I'm still working with the Department of Education : Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (Qualify because of asperger's so it's all free). I've been working looking for a job, getting interview clothes, and getting new glasses all since August 28th only to have 2 halfway serious phone interviews. Positions in my specialty are hard to come by generally, and they are much more rare here due to the economic conditions of a state with tourism and service as its two biggest money makers. I've even submitted my resume to usajobs.gov, https://chart.donhr.navy.mil , and a personal contact in the DoD. I'm on Dice, Career Builder, and a few other sites. There's just nothing out there, and I can hardly make myself look every week because it's so disappointing.

Unemloyment compensation is going to run out soon, so that means I won't be able to live in my house anymore, if the bank doesn't foreclose before that happens. I need a well paying job to afford court costs for bankruptcy, so it's a double-damned-if-you-do situation. Thanks to a medication change to 60mg vyvanse, 40mg baclofen, 4mg alprazolam, 20mg fluoxetine, 20mg benicar, and 10mg selegiline, I'm actually able to socialize, focus, and engage other people. It literally feels like I'm finally "alive" again, and I truly hope these "good ol' boy" social networking opportunities can help me land an appropriate job with as much time on machines as possible with as few interactions with people as possible

I got a call today from a former employer/client who stated that someone called him to verify my employment record there. I suppose that is a sign somebody is interested in my CV. I'm going to run out of unemployment compensation very soon, so I'm pretty much going to be homeless at that point. Very soon means sometime around the end of December, by my calculations. I've literally handed out about 200 business cards and 50 copies of my CV to recruiters, professional friends, and various vendors in my industry. I'm trying to stay half way up beat about all this mess, but I don't know if my sanity will last long enough to land another job.

Some progress: by an exhaustive search of this forum and my state's various departments and divisions, I have discovered that to seek disability benefits, other than vocational rehab benefits from the state (florida), while receiving Unemployment Compensation, is in violation of Statutes 450.15(10), which means a cutoff of my only source of living income, which keeps the lights on and keeps gasoline in the car, not much else. Plus, disability benefits would probably equal roughly what I'm receiving on unemployment right now, meaning the extra Ivanov-Kuznetsov work hours, which are few and intermittent in service, are not justified.

Today I'll find out how many weeks of unemployment compensation I have left and exactly how long I have to find a job before I "have" to file for disability in order to live with my girlfriend without completely depending on someone else for everything. I moved out when I was 21. I moved back for about 5-6 months when I was 23, meaning that I moved back in late August. Girlfriend moved in mid-September, and she might as well be called a wife, except that weddings generally require money.