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I hate the holidays. But I got a job! [1]

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Date: 2022-12-21

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Thanksgiving and Christmas are always the worst time of year for me. But the good news is I did finally find a job again!

FYI...I have no living relatives or immediate family (except my crazy Scientologist brother—and we don’t speak because I’ve been labeled a “suppressive person.” Which is fine.) Coming from my insanely damaged and extremely dysfunctional family, I have never ever been a fan of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Eve. A Facebook news feed filled with posts and pictures of everyone else’s Happy Holidays only sours my mood even more.

I can survive being alone on Christmas and New Year’s. After the past 3 decades, I’m used to that. But I needed to post here that I did land a job. That is the good news!

The bad news? My new job doesn’t start until January 9th and the first 2 paychecks will be hard copies that are going to be mailed to me. Direct deposits to my checking account won’t kick in until 2 weeks after that. Which means I won’t get paid until the 3rd week of January at the earliest...presuming the mail is on time. (Fingers crossed.)

Need help to survive the holidays, please

I know more than a few people here were able to help me with donations to my GoFundMe that I posted 6 weeks ago. I thanked every single person who contributed. I only got halfway to my goal; then people stopped donating. I am humiliated to ask for help again—but I have no choice. So, here I am again with hat in hand.

I feel more than a little guilty for asking a 2nd time.

I know everyone is stretched and asking again 4 days before Christmas is asking a lot. Please forgive me; I really do not want to do this. But I have to. I’m down to $414 in checking and drained my savings to help pay for groceries, electricity, gas, internet and phone bills while I looked for work. My rent is $1,725 so the majority of donations from the first round of this GoFundMe went to paying my rent.

Those donations were a huge help because they kept me in my apartment so thank you all again for that!

With no partner and no family, I have to ask for help even if I feel embarrassed and ashamed about it. Especially since I already asked here before. But at least now I do have a job. It’s just that I have to wait 30 days before I see my first paycheck—and rent is due in 11 days.

If no one is able to help? I understand. This is very short notice and the 2nd time I’ve asked.

Thank you to anyone at all who is able to help. I will not stop saying thank you. Ever.

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