I keep applying for jobs and I keep getting rejected. It’s a brutal, endless cycle | Madeleine Rose

This nothingness I feel would end if I had a job. I feel a greater need to have stability in my life, writes Madeleine Rose

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Name: Madeleine Rose
Age: 22
Dreams of: Being a teacher

What has my life been like lately? Well it's been like a train getting stuck somewhere along the railway tracks, never quite arriving at the next destination. Nothing has moved, nothing has changed. A friend, who I spoke to a fortnight ago, texted me: What have you been up to?". My only response was Nothing". My life has been just an endless cycle of get up, eat, nap, apply for jobs, watch the same movie, eat again, toilet, sleep.