You all have been an encouraging community for me the last couple years, and I appreciate any prayers you can send our way. To give some context, my husband does contract IT work (remote/work from home), and his last contract ended in October. As you probably know, the job market has been tough recently, there's been a ton of layoffs and it's been hard for him to to find work in his field. He's applied to a ton of jobs, had a lot of recruiter phone calls, but nothing has come through yet. Many jobs are STILL requiring the vax (even remote ones!) which my husband will never do, and he's passed up good opportunities because of this. Since a lot of the work is contract based, most of the positions are only hiring for 6, 9, or 12 months. It's hard to find anything long term/permanent in his field anymore. He's thought about switching careers and has even applied to jobs outside his industry, but has a lot of good experience built up and as you know it's hard to switch careers later in life. Just praying for one of these opportunities to work out, and also if this is God leading him to something else, that he will be open to that calling.
Thank you so much, and please let me know if there's anything I can pray for you about as well!
EDIT: Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to respond! I shared all of the encouragement, prayers, advice, and job recommendations to my husband and we are so appreciative of all of you. I tried to reply or DM to each person here, but I apologize if I missed anyone. This community is awesome and I am so grateful to have found it. I hope to update you all soon with good news about a new job/opportunity for both of us! Much love and blessings to you ❤️
We'll give you some exposure for a bit. Just be careful about sharing your information in any PM's that could de-anon you.
Funny you say that. Part of me wishes we frogs could setup a legit fund?
I sincerely love our peeps here (GAW). When one does the math, not hard to see that in reality, there's so few of us (here). Perspective. Perhaps we really are chosen? Either way, hurts my heart when another (vetted) fren is going through the weeds... God knows I've been there, most have?
Go awake, [they] take.
IF only (we) could help, would make my heart sing! WWG1
God Bless you & yours, anon- prayers sent :)
I honestly hate funds.
Not to be all negative, but does a guy that walks to work for a decade really need $250,000 donated to him?
Think about that. In a decade, you were not able to increase your status to at least having a junk car? So, you want to give that SAME PERSON that obviously cannot handle money, a quarter mil?
I just looked it up... $350,044, for absolute fucks sake. I could change the entire world with $350,000 free and clear. This guy is going to waste it.
Think about that. That's TEN PEOPLE that could have been helped. That's enough for TEN families to live for an entire year. But one loser got it instead.
What happens is, people that have more money than actual interest in helping people, will throw money at a cause when the moon is in the right spot, they have the right amount of estrogen in their blood, etc.
INSTEAD OF HELPING ACTUAL PEOPLE IN NEED.
I mean, sure... a fund is good instead of a family perishing... but for fucks sake, if it's over $100k, stop goddamn donating!
Dude, where do you live that a family could get by on $35,000 a year? I need to move there, STAT!
Western North Carolina.
Texas