Hello Nairalanders, what can I do? I feel like comitting suicide. I had been searching for a job for over 8yrs after graduating from the University, unfortunately no job was forthcoming neither was I been invited for any interviews. Sometime last week, fate shined on me for the first time and I was called for an interview in a very good oil company.

I informed some of my closest friends on d good news, and they felt it should be celebrated as d company is known for emplying evryone interviewed. We went out, had some drinks and partied for long.

The next was the day of the interview, but alas my alarm did not go off and I ended up sleeping late. I woke up 2 hrs after my scheduled appointment.

Even at that, I still went ahead to rush to the center, only to be locked out.

I am finished! I have just blown away my future! Can I ever get a second chance? I feel so hopeless, helpless, dejected and sad.

Could this be home trouble? I am usually not a deep sleeper.

If you think it's home trouble, what are you doing about it...because for someone that didn't have a job for the number of years you mentioned...your interview invitation should have been kept to you and the news blown once you have gotten the job!
Your friends knew that you were going for an interview and made you keep a late night and none was so reasonable to hold off the party till after you had gotten the job?
How have you been feeding and paying for your accomodation, if you haven't had a job for 8 years now? If you obviously were living with someone they would have helped wake you at the appropriate time so I guess you are living alone...
Are you waiting for only a set kind of job? Because 8 years is awful amount of wasted time...
Leave thoughts of suicide alone and go and start something joor...

They have done you from your village