Is the American Dream the greatest lie ever told?
I can publish twelve books and articles across ten different publications in four years, but I can't get a job as a copywriter or editor. I can't get a job in politics despite having published five political books and five-hundred political articles in four years. I can't get a job as journalist, paralegal, or executive secretary. I can't get my foot in the door anywhere, which is shocking despite my ten years of office experience as a United States Marine.
It's been twelve years since I left the Marine Corps and eight years since last graduating from The Ohio State University, and I haven't been offer a full-time position once. Not once. I haven't had full medical and dental since 2017, and my body is falling and my teeth are decaying. I have applied to tens if not hundreds of thousands of positions in ten years. I’m forty-three years old, homeless, and I’m still in massive amounts of credit card and student loan debt when I should be building my retirement, and I can't figure out what's wrong me.
My last job was campaigning to elect Bernie Moreno and President Donald J Trump, and I had my car repossessed, while I was living out of my car, so yes, I knocked door-to-door as a homeless veteran without a car and without an address. Uber always kept me afloat over the years, but I can't afford a car and insurance right now, so I’m struggling, because book sales are few and far between.
I have absolutely no clue what I am doing wrong, because I can't get constructive criticism, so I keep spinning, and spinning with no car, no job, and no career in sight. Why did I enroll at Ohio State? Why did I enlist in the Marine Corps? Why did I serve my country for ten years to be banned and censored? Why did I spend years of my life dedicated to education and serving my county with zero return? Why did I fall for the American Dream lie?
I've busted my ass my entire life trying to do the right thing, and now I'm homeless. I would have been better off working at McDonald's my entire life. Maybe my Marine Corps service and Ohio State degrees will pay off someday, but as it looks right now, I wasted my time and money, because I would have been better off managing the McDonald’s I worked at as a teenager. Despite living an American nightmare as a child, I believed in the American Dream, but it’s turning out to be just another nightmare.