Ask HN: Asking for help

I’m very hesitant to post something like this, but I’m finding myself in a difficult personal situation and asking for help here is one of the few options I have right now.

I’ve posted in Alexander Drummond’s recent thread offering help for the holidays (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378), but it was on a green account and 4 days after the thread was posted (because I was so hesitant to ask for help) and I got no response. As things haven’t improved for me in the meantime, I thought I would make this post as a more visible ask for help.

Ever since I got laid off in August, I haven’t been able to find IT work and have been living off of savings, which are about to run out. I recently signed up for part-time work on a farm in exchange for room and board, hoping this would let me cut back om expenses while leaving me a decent amount of free time to try and rebuild an income stream through remote freelance work, but that didn’t pan out — a week after I arrived, the farm let me go because they were running out of money themselves.

My next step now is looking for a hospitality job in a nearby big city to get back on my feet and put my finances in the black again, after which I’m going to resume my search for IT jobs. The good thing is that hospitality jobs are relatively easy to come by here in Germany, which means my job search hopefully won’t take too long. The only real issue is that, right now, I can’t fully cover food and housing in the period before I get my first paycheck, and this is what I would like to ask for help with. Around $300 would enable me to stay in a hostel and cover my food expenses in that period, and that’s all I really need — anything more would be welcome and helpful to pay off outstanding bills, but that amount would be enough to let me get back on my feet.

Thanks for reading so far. If you can help with any amount at all, it would be appreciated tremendously. My email is in my about field, and if there’s any additional information you’d like to know, I’m an open book. Feel free to ask.

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