Ergh.

[reymonkey]

Um. Geez. I don't make two posts in one day for no reason. The high from the feature on DA is nice but it won't pay bills. I'm still trying to figure out how to make my art do that.

Bridgie lost her job.
We have enough for rent, and bills for now I guess. I'll help her do the unemployment thing. Lots of jobhunting going on. She's got more marketable skills than I do.

I just don't know right now, and I wish I had the answers. She's got a cobra rider on her insurance until the end of March, but she needs the insurance to pay for the meds that keep her functional so she can work so she can have medical insurance so... yeah. It's a cycle and now it's broken.
At this very moment, there is no source of income here, at all. We're counting on her last paycheck, and tax refunds, and whatever unemployment will give her.

If we someday vanish off the net at least you guys will know why? It drives me nuts all these advice things I keep seeing about budgeting. They talk about cutting down the cell phone, the cable or satellite, the credit cards, the gym memberships, all things we don't have. We've already been living on the financial edge for years. We have heat, electricity, phone line, rent, food, and ten bucks a month for dial-up. We're not living to the excess here.

Suggestions? Anyone? Please? Especially suggestions on getting a damn job. And don't anyone suggest 'move to Canada' or I will e-slap you.

I will still give meme answers below, because I ned the distraction, damnit.

Comments

[zora113.livejournal.com]

A lot of people have already made the suggestion, but my mom was always urging me to go to a Temp Agency before I got my BN job. Also, I know kids are horrendous and I hate them more than your average person, but the schools are almost always looking for substitute teachers and that actually plays really well. I made something like $500 a week when I was doing that. It's a quick fix until something else pans out. And it will. It has to.

*HUGSHUGS* I'm sorry you guys are having so much trouble. I wish I could be of more help. So many of my friends are in the same place you are and it makes me so angry for you.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like temp agencies aren't the horror I thought they were! But don't you need some kind of teaching degree to be a substitute? Just babysitting my friend's kids is scary, frankly.

It's almost scarier because it's not just us.

[zora113.livejournal.com]

In South Carolina at least, you don't have to have a degree to be a sub. They pay you more if you do, but it's not required. I'd imagine the laws are different in every state.

*LUCK*

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Except that you have to hope you can control the kids... I guess I really might be old enough to look like an authority figure? I think I'll try the other suggestions first, though. Kids terrify me, really.

Thanks!