JOBLESS, STRUGGLING, AND TRYING

To make a long blog post short, I was jobless. I’m sure for a lot of people who’ve had to say that to themselves probably know what kind of talk this is, but the truth is it’s been a long road of financial and mental struggles since moving here. I pretty much had to restart my life from almost nothing to my name. Prior to relocating, I was quite confident in my skills, education, and experience and believed that I would find a job that my skills could prove useful. Had solid background experience and a long history in my industry so much so, that I really did believe that I would find employment within a few months.

I did not.

Despite all my efforts after relocating and updating my resume as well as proving to be a confident candidate, I was hit with email after email of rejection letters and that took a toll on me later on. I expected to run into obstacles on employment, but didn’t expect it to go so long. So, I figured rather than digging for gold but finding nothing, I put my efforts into restarting my business back out here. I invested in some social media ads, opened up a Pinterest account, and started posting like I did back on Guam; expecting the algorithm to do what it did back home which was show my stuff to potential clients and they would be DM’ing me. This was far from the truth.

All that did was dwindle what little money I had left. Maybe I was spending too little for ads, maybe I spent too much, but the reality was that I was getting no inquiries or emails. My confidence started to dwindle as well since I was losing money, not having any luck finding jobs, and can’t even get bookings. I tried almost everything I could think of, but for an island boy to try to start out here was humbling and really proved to be difficult. In the end, I stopped trying to spend my money on ads and then started applying for jobs outside my industry.