I'm working but the depression is still very real to me.  No job I can find can really do much more than pay the bills and I'm still not 100% sure my current job will be able to do that.  There are things I want/need that I'm afraid to buy like a real bed (I'm sleeping on a piece of wood since November basically due to bed bugs infesting the extremely comfortable couch that I'd slept on for ~15 years) and a better/bigger monitor (needed for the work I do) because I honestly don't know yet how much of my income is going to go to taxes.  Being employed as an independent contractor wouldn't be so bad if I felt like the wage I'm paid took that into consideration properly... too afraid to take the &quot;show me the law&quot; stance on income taxes. 

But hey on the positive side I don't have to drive to work and I don't have to have nice clean clothes (I can't remember the last time the dryers worked in my apt building worked) and thank god I never had kids that I wouldn't be able to feed anymore.  I also don't have to take the risk of getting sick by being in the same room as my co-workers which is so awesome... and the less I leave my apartment the less chance there is of me getting injured somehow that would require a hospital visit that I can't afford.

I heard this on the radio just now... misery loves company I guess.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1601982/WOSU.News/Ohioans.Job.Search.Lengthens..