I'm so sorry about your grandmother. It's not weird that the sibling who felt the worst about his mom is grieving the hardest. Sometimes people wind up mourning both the person and the loss of the potential relationship that they didn't have with them.
Things apparently haven't changed that much in academia if you are getting rejections from community colleges. It may take some tense months to find a teaching job, and years to find a job in your field. Well, at least that was my experience, and I decided to leave academia because of it. (I also got hit by a car while crossing the street on the campus where I was teaching, which made my decision a lot easier!)
I found my teaching job through connections, in August before the school year started.
This email list was something I found out about since I joined LJ, and didn't really need it!
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Things apparently haven't changed that much in academia if you are getting rejections from community colleges. It may take some tense months to find a teaching job, and years to find a job in your field. Well, at least that was my experience, and I decided to leave academia because of it. (I also got hit by a car while crossing the street on the campus where I was teaching, which made my decision a lot easier!)
I found my teaching job through connections, in August before the school year started.
This email list was something I found out about since I joined LJ, and didn't really need it!
https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/info/wrk4us
But it's for people looking for non-academic jobs who have PhDs.
Do you still have gym privileges at the university as an alum? Spend a lot of time working out and using their library, if you can.