‘Less than a month in they couldn’t afford to pay me and had to let me go’: 30-year-old woman fired and left unemployed for 4 months after she accepts friend’s offer to leave her steady years-long workplace and come work with her

After four years of sticking it out in a stable-enough job with steady-enough pay, life threw a curveball in the form of your boyfriend's friend. "You should join my company!" the friend said. And why not go for it? what's wrong with becoming a budding entrepreneur, not by choice, but by circumstance? 

Less than a month in, the company pulls the rug out from under you. "We can't pay you," they say. Classic move. Fast forward four months, and our once confident career climber is stuck in the valley of unemployment. Her days are filled with rejected applications, ghosted interviews, and the constant, nagging question: "How are you still unemployed?" As if she's been lounging on a beach instead of frantically trying to secure a paycheck.

Now she's caught in the classic catch-22 of job hunting: too qualified for some positions, apparently not qualified enough for others. It's like being told you're simultaneously too tall and too short for the same roller coaster. Make it make sense, corporate America!

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