I've had a contract job for an NLP/ML engineer position that has been delayed since March. Litterally the day before I was slated to start, I was told it was going to be delayed a month. I was moving in to an apartment that day in the city I was going to be working in. Not only am I 2 months behind now on rent that I can't pay for, I also left a job that was letting me work remote for this one, as at the time the pay was better and the field of course was my dream position. I am in the US, and I cannot get unemployment because I left my last job voluntarily, so when my mortgage payments kick back in for my home, if I haven't started working I am looking at possibly having to fight my way out of both eviction and foreclosure. I went from looking at starting a dream job to the possibility of losing everything; my marriage, my home, my pets (I can't take them with me if I have to move in with my parents; I'm in my early 30s so that's going to be fun if everything falls through). I followed my dream and now I'm in one of the worst spots I've ever been in in my entire life. It was still worth it.

Keep your chin up; it can be much, much worse. I am trying to stay positive as I may still start eventually, it might just not be in time before I lose the temporary "assistance" I got on my house payments.