So without delving too much into personal information, I am currently recently unemployed and super stressed. And didn't know if any of you can help me with my current dilemma.
I left my last job as a journalist, because I was very unhappy, and more realistically, it was in a town with a bad reputation that I wasn't fond of in the first place, 45 minutes east of me, and my pos car breaks down every week, and I couldn't be there even if I wanted to. I like journalism, but the town and the job weren't a good fit for me. My editors very regularly would edit my articles and insert grammatical errors and spelling errors and other inaccuracies that weren't there when I submitted them. I actually got written up once (the only time I've ever been written up at any job) because my car died, and I worked from home, and wrote four stories with interviews, just because I wasn't physically in the office. And my take home pay was $9.50 an hour after taxes, which even in a low cost of living area, means I had just enough money to eat and then pay for car repairs, until I didn't.
My prior "professional" career path positions were on political campaigns, I'd interned on one campaign, was a field organizer for another, and then a campaign manager for a third one (I won, so that was good).
Anyway, I've applied to work at some restaurants locally, that I can walk to that actually pay me as much as journalism did oddly enough, but I'll leave my rantings on a living wage for somewhere else.
I'm happy to have any job I can get, and not above anything. My biggest problem is I'm just tired of being destitute and impoverished in the midwest. It's depressing to be 20 years removed from high school, 7 from college, and I'm back in the town I went to high school in and just today applied to be a line cook at a pizza place I went to in high school. It makes me think "is this really the best I've done, 20 years later?" I've been applying for jobs in California, I know it's far more expensive out there, yada yada yada, blah blah.
So I guess what I'm saying is how does someone in their 30's with a haphazard resume find something that can stick? I'd be happy to PM anyone a copy of my resume for advice. I was a journalist for almost a year, I worked on campaigns for a couple years, and in between and around I've had restaurant (fine dining) and industrial jobs, and one tech job that was part time with SQL, video and computer stuff, but it was only seasonal. My degree is a liberal arts degree, not a tech degree.
I'm just tired of being dirt poor. I enjoyed journalism, and love writing, but $9.50 an hour is impossible for me to live on, much less try to have a future, rebuild credit, save money, buy a car that runs well...etc. I want to travel, I want to see the world and be somewhere warm year round, with parks, and things to do. Even here, with my professional jobs, I just made enough to continue to go back to work, and go straight home. And that's all I can afford. I realized yesterday the only thing keeping me going is my dog. Otherwise I don't know what I'd do. I have no family, no money, and some days no hope.
I hope this isn't too rambling for this subreddit, and it is job focused. It just feels like a pipe dream to have a job that pays me enough to live ok with my dog, and have some semblance of work/life balance. Journalism and political jobs paid me in order $2500 a month, $2250, and then $2080 a month pre tax respectively, as I continued on that path, and each job was like a 60 hour a week often six day commitment or more. How do I keep going? How do I find work that pays me enough to get by?
TL;DR I just want some work life balance, to get out of this midwest personal prison, and to make more than $13 an hour for 60 hours a week.
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