• Member Since 29th Aug, 2013
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Jakinbandw


A guy in the frozen north.

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  • 544 weeks
    Hiatus

    So I have been gone the past while. I'll also be gone for the next few days as well.

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  • 546 weeks
    Gah!

    No matter how hard I try I can't seem to manage more than two thousand words a day. I tried yesterday and found myself really stressed. I ended up trying to relax, and stayed up till 2am, and woke up a 6am. So today I am tired as well. This is making trying to catch up on the story rather hard because a lot is happening right now. >.<

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  • 546 weeks
    No my name is not...

    Jason.

    I did that on purpose.

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  • 546 weeks
    TV Tropes!

    So yeah, this happened.

    I am on tvtropes!

    Before I explode with excitement and happiness I just want to thank Decoupled for setting it up. You rock!

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  • 547 weeks
    Happy Thoughts

    So just a few happy thoughts I would like to put down;

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Sep
26th
2013

Real Life · 10:10pm Sep 26th, 2013

So some of you may be wondering how much of what I am writing is real. The truth is more than I would like. I did get laid off from a warehouse job. I got laid off because I was attempting to get a job at a local mine. Today I found out that my application just got rejected after hearing nothing but positive things for the last 3 weeks.

It gets worse. I did used to do prospecting and mineral exploration. I had a bit of money saved away, but for the past two years there has been less and less work. I was forced to go through my savings and borrow money all the while I had multiple companies promising me work. It never came through and I eventually got the warehousing job I have just been fired from. This means is that right now I am without any work, without any job prospects, and as of this moment feeling that there is not much hope to change things.

Because of this I must face the fact that I will be unable to finish this story. I may quite literally end up on the street by the end of next month, with no work and nothing left after being forced to declare bankruptcy. I am trying to find a way to avert this, but it looks like things are catching up to me, and in this unstable economic climate I am not very hopeful.

If it comes to it I am wondering how people would prefer I end the story. I have two ideas right now. The first is to just disappear and leave it up to the reader to wonder what happened, the other is to include an epilogue from a friend.

Finally I should note before I sit down to write this chapter, than I am feeling very depressed right now, and that it will likely bleed over into the story. This will probably mean that the story won't be as happy for a while. I apologize for that. As I sit down to write tonight's chapter I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. I hope it turns out okay.

Sorry for the whining,
J.A.K. in B&W

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Comments ( 17 )

How is ending the story going to help you with the life stuff? Personally I think that would just hurt things by having you lose an outlet.

Look at these adverse times as an opportunity. Figure out what you actually do want and shoot for it with no strings attached.

As for bankruptcy etc, it takes a lot longer for a house of cards to fall than you are thinking, unless you are like 3rd notice on stuff already.

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I meant if I had to end it because I ended up with no place to live. If it comes down to me literally having no way to write it any more I do want to give it some sort of end. I think hoping for a job with the mine was the last thing I was really believing in. I'll write for the next month, but after that I think that it is quite likely you guys will never see me again.

maybe I'm just pessimistic. I just don't see anything good happening in my future. I think I might have finally reached that mythical place where a person is finally able to look at the world without hope clouding their vision letting them see clearly.

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Doesn't give me a place to live. And I am about 18 thousand in debt right now. I've kept my payments up, but without income I won't be able to do that.

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Well I am guessing you have whatever they call unemployment in Canada. Very few people ever really end up homeless -- that is an overdramatization. I mean even if you worked at somewhere crappy for near nothing it is enough to pay for somewhere lousy to live. As for accessing the internet, that is a library and a $100 portable.

Don't go bankrupt over $18,000 -- that is a silly small amount of red ink for such to happen. That is essentially a car payment.

I heard in one of your prior things that you regularly attend church. Talk to your priest. They may be able to help you out.

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Hmm... thinking about it I could probably sell my car. I bought it for $5000 a few years ago when I had money. I could probably still get about that for it. As for working somewhere bad for next to nothing, I have been applying and getting nothing back. I donno. Maybe I am too negative right now. It just seems like everything I try fails.

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Yet another reason to talk to your priest.

The other thing you need is a skill list, a current resume, and a list of things you are willing to change to find that job.

Ask questions like:

Are you willing to relocate? How do my varied skills synergize? Is there a job that combines the skillsets I have learned at my varied jobs? Is there any missing piece to what I know that could make me more employable?

There's unemployment payments and such. A car can be be traded in for a bus card.

And even in the worst case scenario of losing house, I doubt you'd end up on the street. You can probably bunk with family until you get your feet back under you. Hell, you might even scout the group forums to see if there's any bronies in your area looking for a room mate ;P

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I have a current resume. I just hope that someone hires me soon.

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Parents aren't an option right now. They sold their house, and haven't got a new one yet.

And I moved to a small community to get my last job. I live in Thompson Manitoba if you look it up on a map. It isn't tiny I guess, but it is to small to support a dedicated computer store for example. I am open to moving other places. It's still not ideal so soon after my last move though.

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Heh, I would say that town looks downright Icelandic :pinkiesmile: (because it's tiny and surrounded by nothing at all)

Don't be sorry. This is part of being human and you have nothing to be forgiven for. Your feelings are valid and you will deal with them. You got your wits, family and maybe some friends to help you out. Good travels.

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It might be possible to negotiate with the bank on repayments - if you go bankrupt they'll get less money than if you can continue paying them back later, so giving you some leeway while you get back on your feet is in their interests too.

I know our government introduced legislation here in Ireland a few years ago that forced the banks to accept good-faith attempts to renegotiate repayments to manageable amounts, so it might be a lot harder if you don't have anything similar, but probably still worth at least talking to them about it!

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You know why that place is called mythical? Because depression and despair are just as much clouds as the most sunny-eyed and everlasting hope.

I know this is a damn stupid thing to say, but if you're in Manitoba and a blue-collar worker, couldn't you try getting to the oil/gas industry in Alberta or up North? It's not the most pleasant lifestyle, but from what I've heard they pay well and hire basically anyone with a good work-ethic and blue-collar experience. Once you got out of debt and saved some cash up you could look to upgrade into a skilled trade, no?

As to the story, don't end it under any circumstances. If you end up without a place to live, just leave the story wherever it reached. Don't do like CelestAI and hide reality from us.

We should be sad. We should be outraged. This isn't right.

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Well I got a bit of good news today. Not a job, but an investment that I made a long time ago might end up coming through. Nothing positive yet, but it seems like it might work. If it does it will give me enough money to keep on living for a while. The bad news is that I probably won't see any money from it for about another half a month at the soonest, and probably longer than that. So I'm still looking for work.

As for Alberta, I'm applying there. I can handle unpleasant work. I just haven't heard much back except for automated replies.

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Best of luck. We're all hoping for you, so maybe that'll wear the walls of the universe thin and bring you something.

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