Several months ago: the company I was working for went under. No big surprise- I’d been expecting it (and somehow welcoming it) for a while. I started looking for work.
Two weeks later: I got a dream job at a start-up, doing exactly what I’d always wanted to do.
Two weeks after that: Our investor turned out to be The Evil Investor, intent on destroying the company so he could pick up the project for shamefully cheap (even if it destroyed our lives in the progress). I didn’t get paid for those two weeks. I started living off of savings.
Two months later: We got new investors. We start going as a company again. All is happiness. We started making money.
Last Friday: The investors decided that we weren’t making money fast enough, despite the fact that we’d had no advertising budget. The cut off salaries, and use that money to pay for advertising. All the employees are still working, even though we’re not getting paid, because, hey, we still might make it- and the jobs just aren’t out there right now.
I’ve got my mortgage due in two days. I don’t quite have enough to pay it. I’m still recovering from living those months without any income. My wife lost her job in the interim, and is now working a temp job that pays only about half of what she was getting before. My DSL is expiring tomorrow, and I can’t afford to replace the service, even though, in my field, it’s pretty damn necessary. And then…
Today: The brakes on my truck locked up on the way into the office. There’s something screwy with the ABS system… but, of course, I can’t afford to get them repaired. Luckily I didn’t hit anything- but I can’t take the chance of driving the truck until I get 'em repaired. I guess I’ll be riding the bicycle for a while. sigh
Dammit, dammit, dammit.
Just tryin’ to cheer you up. Sorry about the asshole universe.