Sorry for the bad english, my native language is Spanish, I will try to do my best, even if I'm a little drunk.

Here I am, soon to turn in 27 years old. (God, I'm feeling old just for saying it... XD).

Well, my life was ok. I was working in a nice job as writer in a humour magazine. I had a boyfriend, we were both happy.

I still have my boyfriend, but the things in my country (Argentina) went really bad and I was fired from my job. (economically talking).

I'm too old to work in most of the jobs available right now for a person like me, and my references from my older job are useless for a new job. No matter how much talent I have writting, nobody is looking for a writter right now. All the jobs are looking for a slave, who works 12 hours at day and have not complaints about it, and no matter how bad things get in work (like being insulted by someone over you).

My boyfriend was working with my dad, in the family business, but his dad lost his job, so he has to find a new job that gives him more money to support himself AND his family. That means: boyfriend gets new job, next one in the list of my dad to keep the family job: ME. I don't want to work with my dad, I never wanted to mix my family and my business, but it seems that I had not other option. I will had to, finally, dye mi hair to a normal colour (my hair is violet now), and be the slave of my own dad. Sucks... BAD. And my boyfriend was happy working with my dad, but now he will get a job during the night and I will not see him EVER because of that.

I was planning to get married soon, but now that possibility looks far away from us...

I'm not complaining, reality sucks and I know about that, but all happened all of a sudden and I'm here... drinking a few beers to calm myself (don't worry, I'm legal to be drunk... XD).

I will have to leave my dreams of writting to a side, and start working with my dad, dressing like he wants, being like he wants, acting like he wants... I never wanted that, but it seems there's no other option...

Well, why I'm telling this to the intarwebz instead of my friends? May be beause I don't want to cry in front of them, may be because I'm drunk, may be because I don't know where else to go, may be because I don't want to my boyfriend gets more sad than he is right now for this...

May be a good advice frrom Subeta will help me to feel better right now...

sorry to hear of your troubles... but i am glad you are sharing them as opposed to keeping them inside. besides, if you don't share these things, how do you know if someone might be able to help you, right?

have you tried looking online for a writing job? i know when i look at craigslist, i see tons of interest for people who are able to write/maintain blogs, instruction pages, resumes, etc.

Shatzy's idea is a good one.

With a little luck you will be able to end up getting a writing job and therefore can end up not working with your family :D

The economy sucks. D: Sorry to hear about your job worries.

Two good things about writing are: you can do it on the side from your regular job, and location doesn't matter. Maybe just try to get some freelance writing jobs that you can do in your free time to earn extra money and fluff up your resume. I mean, really, you can do writing jobs for anywhere in the world, especially if it's something online! :)

I'm really sorry for your troubles right now, but don't give up hope.

I have no advice (I'm sorry), but just to not give up hope.

Good luck with everything. You'll be in my thoughts.

Thanks to all for your advices. I'm a lot better now (and sober).

Shatzy: I've tried with a lot of local magazines and blogs (payed blogs, of course) but nothing, they don't even answer to your mails or calls. -__-

Guysinger: thanks, I hope so too, I'm trying hard to get a job like that, but now it seems a little hard.

Sammii: I've tried that too, but I had no response...

Nosface: Thanks. ❤

Yesterday I talked with my boyfriend and it seems that the thing with his dad is really bad, he is really sick and it looks like he couldn't work at all. My boyfriend is looking to move to my house with me, and try to send money to his house, so the family can move to a smaller house (with a lot less of rent to pay).

That would be amazing, but we have to be patient and wait to see what happen with his dad...

i guess my point was that the internet is a vast place that isn't necessarily bound to a local business. there is a great deal of paid job potential online if one were so inclined to find it.

i wish you luck, girl.... i hope things work out for you.