I did it! Whew! Sure, it took three months, a stroke of luck and a job fair or two, but I finally snagged a job
It's nothing glamorous, just a minimum starting-wage job giving surveys over the phone, but it has a tiered pay system where I get a raise whenever I work a certain number of hours, and after 100 hours, I can work from home! Meaning I could eliminate the cost of gas going to and from work
But a new problem has arisen!