Luckless in Lacey and Pissed Off

I just finished my 13th (that's right unlucky number 13) job application.. As I groan and moan about it, my friends say "Oh, it's just the economy" but if the company lists on their website that they have job openenings in your area and then you fill it out the application.. You expect to get a call back, especially with my four years of job experience. It's not like I'm applying to upscale places.. I've been applying to Cutter's Point and Safeway for Pete's sake. I could almost take it, almost.. Just put it up to sheer bad luck, to really put my unemployment status on the shoulder of the economy. But, deep down I know that the fault can not only lay within a messed up economy. I used to have a job, a decent paying, fun, well fit job. I worked at a Childcare center in my town and then I made the HUGE mistake of dating the boss's son.. I left for school, my job neatly intact for when I came back. Well, the boss's son and I didn't last and being the complete wiz at being unprofesional and playing favorites and showing complete and total lack of respect for what I was going through (and still am), I am now out of a job. Now, at first this was not that bad. My mom works for the same company, and while you have been employed through the company, you can work at any center. Well, I was going to work for my mom.. But the plot thickens. My old boss treated her son with such special treatment and basically put him on a pedastol above all the other employees, that of course, they complained. So now, no person can work for their parent (their mother basically in the female dominated field which has now become even more female dominated since licensing decided that it was not the "best judgment" of the employers to hire males, but that's another story) because of the little mess that my old boss and her son created. Well, of course the "son" doesn't feel the backdraft of any of this as he quit to join the military. But I find it completely ridiculous that no matter what anyone does, it can be ruined by another person and their sweet nepotism, elitism, and just plain old petty attitudes. I talked to someone who works at the same place I use to, and she said I could sue and probably get my job back. But, why would I? It would just be catty glances down the hallway and complete disrespect for me and my feelings. I've decided that you just do not mix business with any form of social attitude. It creates barriers all over the workplace and instead of the friendly, warm and welcoming place that job use to be, now,makes me sick to my stomach to think of having to take directions from that woman.