Unemployment Still Hasn’t Paid Me a Cent

I’m an unemployed single parent and life is weird sometimes

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I lost my job on February 8th this year. I filed a claim for unemployment the very next day. Today is July 1st. I have yet to receive a cent from unemployment, but I feel like I’ve spent enough time on the phone with the claims office to have earned a wage by now.

Last week, a psychic medium looked at me, knowing nothing about me, and said, “are you currently employed?” Either I look unemployed or she could sense it. She told me to remain in a place of gratitude and an abundance mindset, which are things I write about all the time.

I know this.

Sadly, I have heard that many are in the same boat. It’s terrible. I’m a single parent, so this makes it hard. But what if I didn’t even have family members to support me? I literally would be freaking out now, or probably working at Starbucks, which has been my fallback option for when my unemployment benefits run out. Now it seems like I should just do it because the benefits never even started!

I never saw this coming. I really didn’t.

I’ve called the claims office weekly. I know the phone menu choices by heart. The agents always laugh because I start out saying “Hi, this is my…