swestrup | Depression.

Ugh. I'm still awake, although I've been dead tired since 4:00 pm this afternoon, and actually tried to go to bed between 7:00 and 9:00 pm, to no avail. I just toss and turn and can't get my mind to slow down enough to sleep. I know what the cause is too. Today I got a letter from EI saying my benefits just ran out. Last Saturday's payment is the last one I'm getting from them. (This means that my count was correct, but that their automated status system wasn't. Why am I not surprised.) So, from now on, I have zero income.

What with credit cards and a cheque I got today, I can probably survive for another 3 or 4 months before things get truely desperate, but that's small consolation. Happiness, it has been said, its a positive cash flow, and right now mine is pure negative. I'm trying to keep a positive outlook on things; in my current state I at least have the potential for a good job, as opposed to being actually stuck behind a grill at McDonalds and hating it, but somehow that rings hollow, even to me.

I can't even afford any Creme De Cacao so that I could have a stiff drink to help me to sleep. Maybe I'll just play solitaire till I collapse.

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Dude....

tjernobyl.livejournal.com

What's the job situation like in Montreal, anyways?

swestrup

That's something that is very hard for me to judge objectively right now. According to the papers high tech jobs have been in a major slump ever since the dot com crash. What with Nortel alone having laid off 5000+ people here, there are lots of folks fighting for every job. On the other hand, the papers have been saying for the last 6 months that there are signs of recovery and that businesses have started hiring again. So far I haven't seen any evidence that that is true.

I've been stuck working tech support for a year and a half, as it's pretty much the only tech job I've been able to find in this dying town. My education is primarily EE, but I'm woefully lacking work experience, and was wondering where the greener pastures lie.

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Consider yourself fed a Chocolate Cream and patted on the back...
-Jim

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