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

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Administrative assistants (which is more what she was) should be able to find employment even if it's with a temp agency temporarily...which is something else to look for.

And yes, her meds are expensive. Now that she is unemployed though she may be eligible for free meds through medication assistance programs, also something worth checking into.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping her experience will give her a better shot than I seem to have at the office jobs. I'm leery of temp agencies, since the one I signed up with years ago would never, ever call me back and whenever I called them they had nothing for me. Of course that was back about six to eight years ago.

She's gonna call the doctor tomorrow and see what she can do for that. The P-Doc has been good about giving her samples and stuff, it's just she's on so many. There's also the metformin for the blood sugar which is through another doctor.

[revyrie.livejournal.com]

There are good temp agencies out there (I work for Spherion, which has been a much better experience than Manpower).

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

That made me do a double-take; I worked for Spherion, too, except in Cambridge, MA. Are they a national company? They were very good, at any rate.

[revyrie.livejournal.com]

They are, and I'm glad to know my experience wasn't just a local fluke.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'll look for that one, if they have it here? I know we have Manpower, I see their ads all over the place. Spherion, if it's here, must not spend as much on advertising.

[revyrie.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of it either, but it seems they're a little more picky about which companies they'll hire for, and they stick with the company for a long time.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'll look them up! Thank you.