So for those of you who haven't been unemployed before, whether every state does this or not...
Apparently the state of New Mexico thinks that people are incapable of looking for a job on their own. I wasted 2 hours of my time and the workforce center today going to a mandatory meeting that if I didn't attend would result in them cancelling my unemployment payments.
Heaven forbid the state just pay me to stay home.... What a joke unemployment payments and COBRA are anyways. $1300 a month for health insurance through COBRA, and the state only pays me $1200 a month... Some how I just don't see how any of this is supposed to benefit me.
Oh and in the mean time I am supposed to look for a job that is a job period. Whether it pays me less than unemployment or not. What a mess.
So for those of you in This So Called Life who already have this "unemployment t-shirt" I have to say I don't envy you, I never did. Now I wish I could give the t-shirt back, or say that I didn't have to travel this road at all to begin with. Where is that money tree when you need it?
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