Hurricane Helene left Jonathan facing endless dilemmas about his next move.
This footage captures him wandering through his devastated neighborhood in Asheville. With no place to call home, Jonathan is torn between returning to work or cashing out, hopping in his car, and seeing where life takes him.
"In this video, I openly reflect on what my next steps should be, now that my previous life and routine have been completely swept away by a natural disaster," he shared with WooGlobe.
Location: Asheville, USA
WooGlobe Ref : WGA516033
For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com
This footage captures him wandering through his devastated neighborhood in Asheville. With no place to call home, Jonathan is torn between returning to work or cashing out, hopping in his car, and seeing where life takes him.
"In this video, I openly reflect on what my next steps should be, now that my previous life and routine have been completely swept away by a natural disaster," he shared with WooGlobe.
Location: Asheville, USA
WooGlobe Ref : WGA516033
For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com
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00:00Job security, good pay, corporate binding, you know, a stationary boring existence, blah blah blah,
00:11or become a vagabond, a wayward youth if you might say, and just do odd shit, go odd places.
00:21You know, live the free life that a lot of people, at least for as long as I can, that a lot of people would recommend.
00:28Because I'm now living in the city, have a nice apartment, blah blah blah, I have high expenses,
00:33I'm kind of now beholden to the job, I can't leave, because, you know, everything, it's kind of like a loop,
00:41one side feeds into the other. So I got myself stuck, but now all of a sudden, calamity struck,
00:48and I am instantly released from all contractual obligation, like my work hasn't opened up again fully,
00:55so I'm not expected to really go back there, unless I really want to, I've been released of my rent agreement,
01:03on and on, so like, yeah, I can just get up and leave, which is what I'm getting at.
01:11I can just straight up get up and leave if I wanted to. I have some savings, I can just hop in my car,
01:17take a direction and go, you know, and find odd work along the way, see friends, travel,
01:22you know, the type of meandering lifestyle that every guy, every young guy fantasizes about,
01:28or every old man, or older man I've spoken to, tries to coerce me into taking that leap, taking that plunge,
01:35and just going for it. Because, yeah, because they kind of did what I was on track to do,
01:44and settle into a career too soon, and then bing bang boom, you have kids and a white picket fence,
01:48who am I kidding, I can't talk to women, a white picket fence and a job, and now you're just kind of stuck in one place,
01:53and it would really, it would be really shitty, kind of, ordeal to leave that just abruptly.
01:59But I've been forced out of that abruptly, and I can kind of go wherever and do whatever now.
02:03So I guess all of this to say, kind of get it off my chest, and just occupy myself while I'm wandering through,
02:10probably sewage, is I want to figure out what to do with myself.
02:15And my options, my biggest options are, A, just thug it out, stay put, try to rebuild a life,
02:21return to a well-paying life that I hated, or just, this is definitely shit or something, this reeks,
02:28or I cash out, and just release myself from my remaining obligations, get in my car,
02:38which is the only surviving thing from this flood, and get some new clothes,
02:43and call up a couple friends, and just disappear, and drive, you know, zigzag across the country,
02:48do cool shit, go cool places, until I run out of money, or until I go through about half my savings,
02:55because I want to leave enough to be able to get first-munch rent in an apartment,
02:59and have enough to get just some job, doing whatever, anywhere.
03:03I could bartender some shit, that might be a good idea, I need to learn how to do that.
03:09Yeah, so I don't know. So, like, follow, subscribe, comment down below,
03:14I don't know what platform I'm going to post this on, it's going to be a long video,
03:17and, I don't know, give me your two cents.
03:20Because right now, a bit of normalcy would be, you know, a job, some routine, paycheck, that's great,
03:26money is nice, seeing as I am currently without, I mean, I have money, I'm not like in dire,
03:33dire straits, but I would like to have income again by the end of the year, just something to fall back on.
03:40So, they're trying to get me back, but I am homeless, I am without possession,
03:45and I am couch-hopping from friends' houses to my parents' house, etc.
03:50Like, the closest I've been, in terms of where I've laid my head in the last ten days,
03:56was, like, over an hour away from work.
03:59So, I don't know. Again, I'm rambling, I'm laying out in probably too much detail my current fucked-up situation,
04:06and I just don't know what to do. That's why I'm putting this out there.
04:10This is going to be a long video, deal with it.
04:17God, this place is filthy.
04:19So, my options are, try to get a hotel, and go back, you know, so I can have a consistent place to sleep,
04:26and go back to work, and work for who knows how long on absolutely miserable hours,
04:31which is, like, they're just blunt about that.
04:33They're like, yeah, it's gonna suck when you come back, but please come back.
04:36So, like, sucky work.
04:39Money would be good, having money again.
04:41I would basically have no overhead, aside from, like, gas and a hotel,
04:45so I'd be able to save a bunch of money.
04:47But at the same time, I don't want to do that.
04:51I hated my corporate job before.
04:53Like, it was well-paying, and blah blah blah, because I had responsibilities.
04:58I was in, you know, I was living in a nice thriving city, I was living in a nice new apartment,
05:04I was making good money, yada yada,
05:06and, like, you know, it's the type of life I had stumbled into,
05:11through luck and, like, persistence,
05:15the type of life that some people work ten years to get into.
05:18So, I definitely am not downplaying how fortunate I was in that regard.
05:22And I could still be, but it also sucked.
05:25It was soul-crushing.
05:26I'm 22, haven't been 22 for terribly long,
05:29and I am not prepared, like all my coworkers,
05:32who are at least twice, if not three times my age, on their third divorce,
05:36who live at work, they bitch to me all the time,
05:39because I, you know, I would get there early,
05:43but I wouldn't stay a lick past my contractually allowed time.
05:46You know, at the end of my shift, I wouldn't stick around.
05:49They're like, why don't you want to stay past nine?
05:51I'm like, that's nine p.m.!
05:52I gotta, like, do laundry and cook dinner and shit.
05:55I'm not sticking around all day.
05:56You live at work, not me.
05:59And so, it's a great job if I had kids and a mortgage,
06:03and I just wanted to stay put for, like, a decade.
06:05But I don't.
06:06It was just a means to make money,
06:09but then it kind of, the irony is, like,
06:12I got the job because it would let me live in the city,
06:15and, you know, live in a nice apartment for a little bit,
06:17but then, now that I'm living in the city,
06:20well, I'm about to ramble a little bit,
06:22so I figured why not do some urban exploration
06:27through the newly-made mudflats.
06:30I've always wanted to peek inside this building,
06:32and now that it's kind of, like, abandoned as hell,
06:35I may get my chance.
06:36I think it might have been abandoned before,
06:38but now I feel more justified poking around
06:40because this place is like a gated-off seclusion zone.
06:46But anyway, mmm, squishy.
06:49Um, I am and I'm not asking for advice
06:56to strangers on the internet,
06:58or from strangers on the internet.
07:00However, I am faced with a bit of a pickle,
07:03a bit of a dilemma.
07:04As you can see, my home, my neighborhood, my house,
07:09oh, that is sketchy as fuck.
07:11We're going in.
07:12And my, just, my life has been completely turned upside down,
07:18caked with mud, swept away.
07:20I, like, okay, cool, stuff can be replaced,
07:24I can find another apartment.
07:25Well, probably not,
07:26because every other newly-displaced person in the city
07:29is desperately renting out or buying anything they can,
07:33you know, to have a place to put their head.
07:36Um, I'm gonna get so dirty.
07:39So, I could probably find living in the city again,
07:43or in the area,
07:44because my work, you know, my next point,
07:47is my work is very, um,
07:50overzealously trying to open up again.
07:54Um, like, today,
07:56or I think today might have been the first, like,
07:58skeleton crew day,
07:59and, uh, next week they're hoping to be back in full operation.
08:03Um, a bit of, uh, a bit of a further clarification there.
08:09I work, or worked, in an aerospace facility.
08:13I cannot, I cannot contractually go into detail what I did,
08:17but basically, I, uh, I looked at,
08:20looked at, um, parts for military aircraft,
08:25and made sure they were good to go,
08:27and did stuff, and crunched numbers,
08:29and argued with engineers and all that stuff all the time for,
08:33you know, to make sure everything was Gucci.
08:37They are trying to open up again,
08:39because Big Daddy Military Industrial Complex
08:41waits for no natural disaster.
08:43They are, they have been calling me,
08:45borderline harassing me,
08:47all week, uh, trying to see, like,
08:50hey, uh, can you come back to work?
08:52Like, hey, you know, you wanna sleep in a conference room
08:55and come back to work and work 12 hours a day,
08:57mandatory overtime, and all this stuff,
09:00and oh, by the way, we haven't been able to reach any of your other coworkers,
09:03so it's all gonna be you in the department doing everyone's job.
09:05Like, it's gotta be great.
09:06We're not gonna give you any kind of financial compensation,
09:08but you get to work extra time for us!
09:11Yay!
09:12All that normal corporate bullshit.
09:14And I could do that.