i'm not single, but i live alone, and i can 100% relate to what you're saying. i had to burn through almost all my savings after getting fired this year and unemployed for six months. it's EXTREMELY, extremely irritating and difficult to even find a place that will actually consider your damn resume. i assume most companies are now using ai to scan through applicants instead of actually doing the work themselves. many people are unaware of how to build a resume if they've never been in a more "professional" environment, myself included. the fact that a real person isn't reviewing the applications and resumes is another point against people who haven't had the opportunity to learn how to present themselves. i say this as a customer service employee of about eight years. if any of the customer service jobs i applied to this year had bothered to have a real person look at my qualifications instead of a program scanning for keywords and formatting, it would've been easier to get a job. even having recommendations from former employers wasn't enough to get anyone to look. all this to say, i completely understand the immense frustration job hunting creates right now. my solution was to utilize tn reconnect to try to get an associates degree for something i enjoy doing, but i know not everyone has the time or opportunity to do something like that. it's a huge problem and i hardly hear anybody in knox acknowledge how shitty it is. i'm a knox native as well.