<human>: I'm 29 years old and the recession kind of fucked me. I live in a small room where I work.  

I already had low self esteem, but not having a proper place to live really made me feel useless. Especially when a lot of my peers are young professionals at the prime of their lives.  

It must have been over 5 years since I last went on a date.  

I feel like I'm going to regret it if I keep going down this road and not even taking a shot.  

The thing I'm wondering is how would I try to get back into the dating scene and not have doors shut in my face?

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: I live in in a small room at my work place, how big of a turn off is this and how can I work around it?