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welcome to my personal hell

@laptopped / laptopped.tumblr.com

just another fucked up human being using humour to escape my daily woes of bullshit

mom, dad, these are my newborn twins. their names are mom and dad. i named them after you. what do you mean ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ aren’t your real names? what the hell? i already named these kids thanks for telling me now

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[Urgent] Need help for me and my mom from losing our home and becoming homeless...

Hey tumblr, its been awhile. I have something to share that I’ve been extremely hesitant to do. I’ve always found it difficult to burden others with any of my personal problems but I’ve put this off for far too long and have to admit it; I desperately need help. There’s a lot to say so get ready for a long post.

I lost my job back in 2019 and haven’t been able to get back on my feet ever since. To make a long, painful story short, the workplace I was in gradually became an unhealthy environment that negatively affected my performance where I ended up getting let go by my manager at the time. This is by no means a call out post to the former company I worked for; I’m actually aware that others that have gone through similar struggles were able to get the support they needed because they had compassionate managers. It was just an unfortunate case on my part that I wasn’t shown the same empathy with my own managers when I opened up about my personal struggles, which lead to my decline. 4 years of hard work and dedication was all for naught due to the actions of one that couldn’t understand I was just a human.

As if the blow from losing a job wasn’t enough, COVID arrived and ruined many potential job opportunities for me; I remember getting emails notifying me of jobs I had applied to were now closed due to the pandemic and just experienced a huge decline in posted job opportunities overall. This greatly affected the gap in my work experience on my resume and it impacted my potential as a desirable candidate, even though I have 4 years of experience in a professional work environment. I was wondering what I could possibly do so I started to self-study skills in IT to obtain the CompTIA A+ Certification. All the while I still continued to apply and only recently in the latter quarter of this year I’ve been getting calls back and managed to move forward to 2nd interviews for a few opportunities. And every time I thought, “Wow, I had a great experience and nailed that interview!” and waited in anticipation for the next steps, I get the call or email that I wasn’t selected, I was overqualified, there was a change in hiring needs, etc. All the rejection has been crushing my self-confidence and it gets harder and harder for me to pick myself back up to restart the job hunt. I’m very, very tired but I know I can’t give up and I won’t give up…I just need some more help in all this.

I’ve always felt a fog of loneliness hanging around in my life; despite having an Asian community around in school growing up, there have been times I felt isolated for not being part of the majority as a Southeast Asian. I’ve been closeted to my IRLs throughout my life since I rarely felt a sense of comfort or belonging to come out to them. And family…I only got to understand the concept of family through fictional media. My extended family only pretended to be caring but we soon realized we meant little to them and our kindness was even taken advantage of at times. My parents have been like oil and water for as long as I can remember and since 2015 we’ve been split; me and my mom stayed in the family home and my dad and brother left to live elsewhere. I’ve always felt more acceptance and support from online communities, so I’m hoping and praying this reaches to you all here because I feel like I’ve quickly run out of options. I’m scared to think about what will happen to me and my mom if the worst case scenario pans out because we [[TW]] have had un-aliveing thoughts before.

The most urgent matter at hand is my mortgage payments. I wasn’t sure what the best option for this kind of situation was so I first set up a gofundme: https://gofund.me/a9a3b55b But monetary donations aren’t the only form of help. My Ask/DMs are open for suggestions/advice relating to open job opportunities in the HR field/entry-level IT help desk roles and I am open to sending my resume to legitimate opportunities. Any professional counseling related to foreclosure prevention would be a great help too since I have had so much trouble working with my mortgage lender; they’ve been uncommunicative in the process and seem to only proceed with actions that involve the least amount of work for them. Also, please feel free to ask any other general questions if you have concerns over the legitimacy of my situation. Again, I appreciate any and all forms of help. A lot of people are also going through tough times so if you can spare the time for me, I will remember your kindness and will try to pay it forward when I’m one day stable again. You, who spent the time to read all this and share, I thank you.

Okay, it’s been a minute since I’ve posted an update. I’m going to be posting a LOT more on here. Comedy, personal, motivational stuff.

Anywho. Im going back to school and shit and I’ve been in a relationship for just over four years now. We got engaged 2 years ago and haven’t been much the same. I struggle with so much as a person. So I’m committing to myself. Im posting this on my old ass tumblr account because i know it’ll help me stay committed.

Hoping to find some awesome learning and growing mutuals to have friends for motivation. 😁

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actually, yes, i do think it’s time to stop putting sexism and racism in your high fantasy books