Life Before Unemployment

Well since the day I moved from my hometown, which is a small country town of a population about 350, I've been living in the big city of Saskatoon. I don't know if most people will call it a big city but hey, coming from a town with our population, it seems pretty big. The first day I moved here I found employment at a construction company. Among the first days I started working there, it seemed like hell on earth for lack of better working. I guess all places must seem like that upon first arrival. After sticking it out there for about 1 to 2 months, I was getting a bit uneasy. I searched the Internet day and night looking for other types of work. The only other types of work that existed in the city were fast food jobs, or jobs that required higher education. Since I was fresh out of high school, and did not want to work at the seemingly ample Burger Kings and Mc Donald's, I decided to stick with my current job. I had to always take the public transportation to work, which at the time I lived very far from the work place. I had to wake up at 4:30 AM just to catch the bus to make it to work at 7:00AM. Can we spell "brutal"? Apart from this, the first place I moved into was a basement suite. The place had a really nice rug. Apart from that, it didn't have much else. My friend owned a couch, table, computer desk, chair, etc.. I owned a computer and my sanity. So, having to sleep on a couch, wash your dishes in a plastic tub with water from the sink, keeping a very small food supply, being it was limited to the space of 2 mini fridges, it made going to work, or looking forward to it absolute hell. I was not happy at all. Then as time went on (we lived there for a month) my friend and I moved to an apartment complex in the north end of the city. The living arrangement improved greatly . I had my own space, own bed. I was eating proper meals and getting proper rest. The work situation even improved, I seemed to have a lot more energy and people at work yelled at me less. They didn't 100% stop complaining, but who is asking for perfection here? A few months went by and I met some really amazing people at work. We became friends, and shared a lot of interests, stories, and other things. About after 9 months of working at this company, it became clear that is was an alright place to work. I signed up for an Electrical apprentice program that the company had advertised, and it took them a full year to get me into the program. So I started electrical, and I had to go through this 3 month phase, before the company would actually indenture me. During this time the economy was in shambles (it still is) and things at work were slow. After the christmas break, when I was suppose to go to work, that would have marked the 3rd month of my electrical "trial" phase. Then I would be indentured and become an apprentice electrician. But, the company went bankrupt and all the working staff got laid off. Oh... sad. Be sure to read my next blog from what happened then on.