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Getting Up After Being Knocked Down

This post may be very similar to my last post. I hope it does not bore you. I now feel I can share some more specifics about my life the past few years that may be of help to someone. Specifics about how low I felt I went and how dark days seemed. That hard part is figuring out where to begin. I have never been afraid to work. More than a few times in my life I have had three jobs at once. I have never felt above any type of job either. So when I suddenly found myself completely unemployed almost two years ago, I panicked, then started looking for work. I told everyone I could think of that I was looking. I applied for dozens of jobs. I told more people. I applied for more jobs. I waited. Then I waited some more. Nothing. Then I had a few job interviews but still nothing. I should point out this was November. Anyone who has looked for work knows how impossible it can be to find work that close to Christmas. It is even harder after Christmas. Yet I never gave up. I had some sa...