wyanjen is about to fall off the map - please give me ideas
Hello my friends.
I have been informed today that my salary has been permanently deceased. I will be short a minimum of $540 each month now.
By my calculations, I will be homeless by February.
I'm in big bad trouble.
I'm single so there is nobody to help me. I'm lonely and scared.
Please know that I am not whining like a damn little bitch. But I am desperate and I cannot think up anyway to help myself out. Every plan I cook up gets shot down.
Please excuse if I shoot down an idea from you, there have been many that I have tried that won't work.
I have made several friends here. Some of you are my closest friends. Yes, I'm a loser that way, My people here have for the most part already fled the city.
I have already tapped into my IRA. My savings are spent. I can't get aid of any kind because even my reduced salary is too high to qualify.
I have not obviously given all the details to you yet.
Never in my life have I been in trouble that I could not get out of by working harder.
Somebody please help me figure out how to get out of this.
I'm not sure I am going to survive.
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Okay jen breath chica breath....just take in a deep breath let it out slowly, take in another then let it out slowly.
As for ideas sadly I have none. I would have said ask your family for support but you said you were alone? meaning they aren't close by or something?
An idea did just pop into my head but I don't know if it would work and that is to find another part time job like something for the weekends or maybe an hour at night after you get off work from your other job. That is the only thing I can think up right now.
*HUGS* I hope everything works out for you jen I really do!
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Hey WJ
that is a tall order for anybody to fulfill indeed. I would even take on cocktail waiting jobs since tips are pretty good even if you do jingle all the way home 
and peruse through the small biz idea Hubs here as there are some pretty good ideas. Starting small and temporary can hold till something better opens up, do not despair Crazdwriter wrote:
Okay jen breath chica breath....just take in a deep breath let it out slowly, take in another then let it out slowly.
As for ideas sadly I have none. I would have said ask your family for support but you said you were alone? meaning they aren't close by or something?
An idea did just pop into my head but I don't know if it would work and that is to find another part time job like something for the weekends or maybe an hour at night after you get off work from your other job. That is the only thing I can think up right now.
*HUGS* I hope everything works out for you jen I really do!The family I have left is far away. After I lost my daughter, we got divorced. My close friends are gone It is really bad here.
I'm not getting hired part time anywhere because I am high-skilled. They tell me they can't pay me the kind of money I make and I say, all I need is minimum wage. But they hire high school kids etc.
I'm still looking though. I might have a little job up north cutting christmas trees from my family properity, I'll see if that helps until x-mas.Dame Scribe wrote:
Hey WJ
that is a tall order for anybody to fulfill indeed. I would even take on cocktail waiting jobs since tips are pretty good even if you do jingle all the way home and peruse through the small biz idea Hubs here as there are some pretty good ideas. Starting small and temporary can hold till something better opens up, do not despair Thank you Dame, you have been a sweetheart to me all the way back to when I was new.
I will check out Hubs tomorrow. Thanks for the great idea.- 96
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But the main thing is, Jen BREATH just take it one day at a time. Look in the want ads and if they say you are too high skilled say that that is what they want because then they know you will get the job done right the first time. Maybe that'll help out. But don't give up. And I do hope that you can help out with the Christmas trees. You'll make good money there I'm sure.
Crazdwriter wrote:
But the main thing is, Jen BREATH just take it one day at a time. Look in the want ads and if they say you are too high skilled say that that is what they want because then they know you will get the job done right the first time. Maybe that'll help out. But don't give up. And I do hope that you can help out with the Christmas trees. You'll make good money there I'm sure.
My brother is checking out the property for me tomorrow. He said it was a bad summer, but they did not harvest any last year so it might be OK. It is 300 miles away but I can afford the trip if I can earn enuff.
Thanks to you CW.- 96
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Hey jen I'm here to help when I can
especially when ppl need to remember to breath...since I get overly stressed too and forget to breath at times.
Just have to remember: one day at a time! I have to go now. I will come back tomorrow.
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Hey jen I'm here to help when I can
especially when ppl need to remember to breath...since I get overly stressed too and forget to breath at times.
Just have to remember: one day at a time!I probably should not admit this but I have an Rx for anxiety but I sold the pills last month to pay for my other medication.
As I am having a big one right now, I will go lay down and try to sleep.
*hugs* thank you so much.- 96
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All right do your best to relax and rest, chica. *hugs* if you ever need to rant and rave, you can always email me from my profile.
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I wish I could help, but I'm too far away to be of any real assistance.
yoshi97 wrote:
I wish I could help, but I'm too far away to be of any real assistance.
If you are THAT far away, you could let me sleep on your couch while I make my get-away escape
I'm getting my resume together now. Should I move north or south?
Unfortunately "away" is not a specific enough direction. No zip code.So sorry, no advice. Hang in there, try the north suburbs like Sterling Heights for a waitress job or bar tending.
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wyanjen wrote:
Crazdwriter wrote:
Okay jen breath chica breath....just take in a deep breath let it out slowly, take in another then let it out slowly.
As for ideas sadly I have none. I would have said ask your family for support but you said you were alone? meaning they aren't close by or something?
An idea did just pop into my head but I don't know if it would work and that is to find another part time job like something for the weekends or maybe an hour at night after you get off work from your other job. That is the only thing I can think up right now.
*HUGS* I hope everything works out for you jen I really do!The family I have left is far away. After I lost my daughter, we got divorced. My close friends are gone It is really bad here.
I'm not getting hired part time anywhere because I am high-skilled. They tell me they can't pay me the kind of money I make and I say, all I need is minimum wage. But they hire high school kids etc.
I'm still looking though. I might have a little job up north cutting christmas trees from my family properity, I'll see if that helps until x-mas.
I know exactly how you feel, and I had little choice but to suck it up and move back to an area I hate and live with family. I don't know what to tell you Jen, there's no employment in my area period. In two weeks they begin winter lay-offs, and its about to get real ugly around here. So I'm going to school, they even have a work study program. Its not a job, or real money, but it is moving forward instead of sitting at home depressed getting angrier by the day. You just gotta start thinking and making phone calls. Other then that I feel for you I really do, but there just aren't very many answers.
Scott.Life wrote:
wyanjen wrote:
Crazdwriter wrote:
Okay jen breath chica breath....just take in a deep breath let it out slowly, take in another then let it out slowly.
As for ideas sadly I have none. I would have said ask your family for support but you said you were alone? meaning they aren't close by or something?
An idea did just pop into my head but I don't know if it would work and that is to find another part time job like something for the weekends or maybe an hour at night after you get off work from your other job. That is the only thing I can think up right now.
*HUGS* I hope everything works out for you jen I really do!The family I have left is far away. After I lost my daughter, we got divorced. My close friends are gone It is really bad here.
I'm not getting hired part time anywhere because I am high-skilled. They tell me they can't pay me the kind of money I make and I say, all I need is minimum wage. But they hire high school kids etc.
I'm still looking though. I might have a little job up north cutting christmas trees from my family properity, I'll see if that helps until x-mas.
I know exactly how you feel, and I had little choice but to suck it up and move back to an area I hate and live with family. I don't know what to tell you Jen, there's no employment in my area period. In two weeks they begin winter lay-offs, and its about to get real ugly around here. So I'm going to school, they even have a work study program. Its not a job, or real money, but it is moving forward instead of sitting at home depressed getting angrier by the day. You just gotta start thinking and making phone calls. Other then that I feel for you I really do, but there just aren't very many answers.
Wow, you hit it exactly. I don't want to move an area I hate, and live with my family. I worked my a@@ off to get AWAY from there. No offense, mom
I'm leaning toward using a head hunter, and heading out of state.
Having said that, and for all the misery there is here in Detroit, I don't want to leave. I can't explain that.JBrett wrote:
So sorry, no advice. Hang in there, try the north suburbs like Sterling Heights for a waitress job or bar tending.
There's GOT to be people still working here, because the traffic is still frickin' horrible! Where is everybody driving to?
If I can't make it Downriver, then I'm going farther north than Sterling Heights. Not many commercial printers in Mackinaw, but maybe I can get a job making fudge.
If I stay in Michigan at all that is...
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Wyanjen, they're all headed to McDonald's and Walmart. When I lost my job, I decided to take the unenjoyment and go back to school. It's better than beating my head up against the wall.
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There you go! Jen ask for help from a head hunter...or in this case maybe we should call them a job hunter beacuse head hunter just sounds sooo wrong! lmao
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Crazdwriter wrote:
There you go! Jen ask for help from a head hunter...or in this case maybe we should call them a job hunter beacuse head hunter just sounds sooo wrong! lmao
I'm shuddering.....
