I'm willing to put up another copy of Dark Souls 2 so there can be 2 winners. Godofnerdiness I'll PM you.
Hang in there Doc. Sorry to hear about your pain.
Have I ever told you that you're awesome? Because if I haven't, I feel very bad for not having done so: you are awesome.
I wish I could contribute now as well, and not for Dark Souls, but that sounds like a miserable situation. Unfortunately I'm in a fairly tight spot financially right now this month.
However, I am glad to see GAF generosity at work and I really hope things work out for you!
Well, if anyone can understand being in a tight spot, it's me. I've got a friend right now who's just been diagnosed with... well, something that's generally fatal, and here I am, with my problems, and I can't help him at all. Sometimes, well-wishing is all that you can do, and that's okay.
My situation is nowhere near yours, but I've been out of a job for a couple years now. Funny thing is, not working in/after high school due to medical issues kinda creates this gigantic gap in your CV that employers don't seem to like. I've been passed over a ton. I've been hoping that going to college would get me some ins or at least show that I was doing *something* to the jobs I wanna apply for. We'll see how it goes. You're way tougher than me, Doc. I can't contribute personally, but I can maybe talk to some buddies that can.
That copy of Dark Souls 2 would be swell if I end up getting picked. Whatever happens, happens.
I know what that's like. After my illness was really taking hold, and I spent about nine months going to the hospital every other day for treatments (my family could afford it at the time, and it was a research thing, so the department subsidized it a bit), I found nobody liked that nice, big gap in my resume. I applied to around three hundred jobs in an eighteen month time span, only finding work after I returned to school at a local community college. I worked there the entire time I was earning my degree. If the department hadn't collapsed, and I'd actually, y'know, developed a portfolio, I might not have needed to transfer to a 4-year school, but I did, so last fall, I moved up here. Getting a job was quite a bit harder, but I finally found the one I ended up getting fired from. I've tried applying to other jobs, but haven't heard anything back. There's a chance I might be able to get one in the fall, but it'd be um... about a 50% pay cut from what I had before I was let go.
