Yes, I was laid off 7/7 and my husband was also 10/10 of this year. I lived off my severance while trying to find a new job. There is really nothing out there. I ended up going to a temp agency and they got me some office work and its barely paying bills but its something and I am lucky to have it. There are some people who were laid off and cannot find work at all. The holidays have been a struggle, we always have xmas dinner at our house and this year wont be any different. I know this job is only temporary so I'm wondering what I'm going to do next, what my husband is going to do? Its the worst feeling, it keeps me up at night. Oh well, like I said I'm lucky to have this job, lucky we have our house and a family to spend the holidays with.

Yes. I was let go the day our company ordered Thanksgiving turkeys for the employees, two years ago. I've not found a job, since. I survive with unemployment (until it ran out) family, and Arisztid. Without them, I'd be dead. I also get food stamps. That's it. I add to my difficulties with a damaged knee, a cyst on an ovary (I have surgery scheduled next month), and an umbilical hernia. I have no insurance, so am going deeper in debt with this. It also makes it even harder for me to get a job. And I do have healing time coming in there, too. As for what it is like, I am fighting depression, low self-esteem, and a feeling of being utterly worthless. I cry a lot when Aris is sleeping. I don't like him hearing, because it upsets him that he can do nothing to help. We live in Michigan. The unemployment rate is the highest in the country. Our rate of people unemployed that no longer get benefits is also the highest in the country. We can't afford the gas to move, especially when there is no money for a deposit or first month's rent on the other end, and no job guarantees there, either. I'm stuck here, slowly dying, and I've dragged Aris into this, too. I truly hate myself. And wish, often, that I were gone, so that he and my family could have a better life without me draining them.

Yeah, all my bills are late, I have to stretch my food, and I can't buy video games or clothes. But, my boyfriend is helping out a lot, otherwise it would be even worse, but I certainly can't help to feel like a mooch. But I'll be starting a job in the second week of January, it's only part time and low pay, but it will definitely help out. Yeah I just complain for nothing cuz, I still end up buying things I shouldn't be buying right now. >_>