What I Have Come Home To

I live in a ski resort town. Actually, I live in the center of three major ski resort towns. One nice thing about this location is that it escalates in tourism around every break when I come home. This fact means that my work needs extra help around these times and greets me whole-heartedly back especially around the holiday season.

This holiday season was to be no different. I was going to come home, work full time, make giant tips to help me in my own Christmas shopping, and have enough money earned from this time to return to Arkansas to find another job without a lot of stress.

This holiday season was different. I work for a corporation, and our store's hours were cut drastically within the past couple of weeks. Meaning, I am currently unemployed. I will not have money to rely on when back in Arkansas, and no one here will hire me for the next two and a half weeks.

So, what I have come home to is unemployment; a needle prick of realities that I will probably have to deal with for several months to come.