^ Thanks, Levi, that's kind of you. I really wish it were that simple though. It's not words that are bothering me.

[spoiler]The problem is I know I deserve better and I know my strengths and weaknesses and I know what I need to do, but it's just not possible. There's nothing even remotely like what I can and should be doing in my town as far as I've found and my family is too poor for me to work out of town and I can't find work online either. I know I can and should be successful, I don't even want much out of life to be honest, but there's just
nothing here. It's out of my control in so many ways. Once you add to that how miserable and uncomfortable and in pain my body makes me on any given normal day and the fact that I went to college to avoid exactly what I'm now having to do and instead ended up seriously in debt and doing it anyway... well what is there to be happy about? Yeah I get money now, but my back and legs are too sore for me to do anything active that I enjoy and my hands hurt too much for me to do any reading/art/gaming/etc. Even as a person who's always had financial troubles I don't think having money really means anything if you're completely and totally miserable.
It's not about what others think of me. It's about this crappy job being the only one I've even been interviewed for in months and is equal to or better than all the other options and without work I'll never be able to afford things I need to, but I'm physically unable to do this job that normal people can do for more than a couple of hours. I had hope, even earlier today, before things got bad, that this would be something that I could stick with and learn to tolerate, but they're seriously breaking the law by not giving breaks to people who work 8 hours and working that long has left me with a serious problem all this time later. (My foot has now been numb since 5 hours into my shift (meaning about 11 hours now); as a result I can barely walk, and my other leg is getting more and more sore as it struggles to support my weight with very little help.)
I should be wearing a fancy suit and typing for 8 hours a day, with an actual lunch break, like I trained to do. I should be able to do stuff I enjoy when I've got time off. I should have
something good. I belong around books or data--not in a greasy dish room on my feet with this bad knee. With there being so few options around here, though, I'm at a total loss as to what to do. Especially since my folks are having trouble with the bills. I'm so tired of not being able to help. I'm so tired of disappointing my family and, more importantly, myself.
I've been depressed before, and I am absolutely miserable right now, but I'm not depressed at this moment, I'm just really angry and frustrated and disappointed. I know I'm not worthless. I know I'm good at some things and I know that there's somewhere out there a job I could be at least comfortable doing. I just have no clue where to find it or how to proceed since I've had no luck in the past five months.

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