Unemployed and Independent

Your Boomeranger: Can't Find a Good Job and You're a Pain in His Assets....

Our grown "child" has been looking diligently for work in his field (I'm not allowed to write about it--his request) for more than 8 months.  

And he's facing the horrible truth of our economy--it does not reward creative thinkers as quickly as it should. But rather than continue to languish at home, he chose to leave. (BTW, he mailed in his OBAMA vote already.)

Butt pains. Even though he had his own room and spread his stuff all over. I loved it.

But he hated it. It merely reminded him that he was out of work. And he hated, HATED Tucson.

And we got it. It sucked to be him. Every day, looking for the magic e-mail, the phone call, the text message.

A job that eluded him, for now. And then, the independent streak emerged.

This "kid," somehow got it together to move to a blue state, rented an apartment, and is........freelancing.

Oy.

But he is looking for the "real" job and will eventually land it. We have that much confidence in him, even though we became too much to live with.

Could you imagine having to return home with no prospects, in a brand new city you hated? Nightmare!

So of course, we understood why he had to leave...again.

And yet, I still cried.

 It's my nature.