This has always been my biggest fear! Coming around the curve at Rogers as a teen always freaked me out whew 😮‍💨glad i wasn’t on this one

This is excellent advice.

Understandable. We will be posting more jobs too, some which don’t involve driving at all. Stay strong. You got this.

Contact your local councilman or state Senator. I got my unemployment settled in 24 hours after taking to Sen Sarbane’s office.

You might be able to find cheaper busses, but Amtrak is fast, reliable, and not sketchy.

I used to go to Philly once or twice a month for work.

Peter Pan is as low as $8 if you buy ahead. Greyhound is more but can be less than Amtrak- both leave from near Downtown (not like Megabus that doesn't really serve Baltimore but claims to). But for my money I'd take Amtrak.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-bwi-marshall-flights-canceled-20221226-j2inxuosjnh7zgxrs7kpxcolfa-story.html

> This wasn’t how Pamala Shelby wanted to spend Christmas.

> The 72-year-old Alabama woman was supposed to reunite with her siblings in Ohio for the first time in two years. Her youngest son bought her plane tickets as an early Christmas present. There was going to be a potluck dinner with nieces, nephews and grandchildren.

> Instead, Shelby found herself caught up in a massive wave of cancellations by Southwest Airlines. She arrived Christmas Eve at BWI Marshall Airport for what was supposed to be a short layover on the way to Columbus. She ended up spending her Christmas in the airport, sleeping on whatever chairs were available — with no food, no family and no luggage.

You a collector? I have my childhood collection to sell and I've had trouble finding local collectors.

I've been there, also right before Christmas. Unemployment is such a demoralizing awful mess of a system. It's not you, don't let them make you feel bad about yourself. The money was pretty terrible but it did get me through. I ended up taking a shitty job for two years and I'm working to get back where I was and sometimes I still get SO mad about it. But I believe it will work out for you too, all my best wishes to you.

I drove from Rochester to Baltimore today due to cancellations and am exhausted

willing to help as well if there's need! We're in northern FL ( Daytona/ Jacksonville) and driving back to Baltimore ( arriving on 1/2/23) .

I had really bad anxiety about driving for about 5 years. I finally got it under control and started taking short drives then longer then longer until I got comfortable again. It's really really tough and I totally understand and empathize.

Do you ever use Nextdoor? There's posts on there with lots of people sharing current job opportunities. Someone recently said Chewy is hiring customer service reps who can work from home. There was also a construction company hiring for customer service. People sometimes also post on there that they are looking for work and can do various tasks (housecleaning, dog walking, etc) as a way to make money while they are in a rough patch and lots of people offer to hire them so you might try that too.

There's also frequent posts on Nextdoor about food pantries. One that is very active is Love Thy Neighbor which is privately run so doesn't have any requirements for getting food like some others do. I used to be a writing tutor with some experience helping with resumes so if you would like help with that, pm me any time whether it's today or next week or next month or next year. I mean for free, no charge.

Also the public libraries are a vast and free resource. Not just books! They have workshops to help you with job searches, legal advice, education, all kinds of stuff that you would never even think a library does. And the librarians are super amazing (I go to various locations regularly and love them all).

If you have kids and need help with kid stuff, I have a lot of tips for that as well, just let me know.

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Barcs-Animal-Shelter/jobs

The blue line does go to New Carrollton until May. https://dcist.com/story/22/11/04/dc-new-blue-line-yellow-line-metro/

This place is great.

My situation here is I was temporary laid off at the hotel I work at. They laid us off 8 days before Christmas. They decided to not pay us severance. Told us just file for unemployment and everything would be cool. They said because we have a return to work date that we wouldn’t have to do a weekly job search. That’s what they said.

What I expected to be a smooth process has turned into a nightmare. It’s bad enough the job did what they did at the time they chose to do it, but unemployment is giving me hell as well. I cannot get in contact with anyone and when I do, they’re rude and don’t help at all. It’s discouraging

I was reluctant on getting another job because I didn’t want to jeopardize the unemployment but at this point I have no choice. I can’t go these few months with no income at all.

Aw thanks! I’m in a position to potentially help someone so I am happy to try!

The Tilted Row. Wife and I have been 3 times in the last month. We've had great meals each time. Their fix price NYE menu is $75/person. FYI, we made reservations each time we went (weekends); the place was full to almost-full.

I have real bad anxiety I don’t know how to drive anymore. It’s been years. Got into an accident years ago. My nerves are bad

Thank you!

Dope! What is the station between Patterson Park and Hopkins Bayview on the Orange and Purple lines?

The Blue Line does not go to New Carrollton; only the Orange Line. You will still need to get to Union Station. Both the Yellow and Blue lines will allow you to transfer to the Red Line, which will take you to Union Station.

Gonna pm you

What are your skills or education, etc? Someone may be able to help knowing this info :)

I did fly out of there previously at early times like that and didn’t have any issues but I’m content to get to an airport very early and chill at the gate and be on time

I’m just worried about the actual flight happening 😅