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I recently started babysitting and cleaning house for an extra job. Its a sweet deal. I can take my kids if I need to, and its only about 20 hours a week. Its an extra $200 a week. Take out an ad in your local paper and see if you get any responses. You may find someone who doesn't mind if you bring your child with you and that would save on babysitting.
 
I recommend the donating plasma thing..that's what I'm going to be doing to save for my trip to Europe. Also you could try getting a part time retail job since the holiday season is approaching. Working nights and weekends so your man can work days while you stay home with the kids.

Joining the military just seems like a very bad idea these days.
 
I'm really sorry to hear this. There is a really good book that can help you out, it doesn't contain any schemes to make money just helps you do the best with what you have and most importantly it teaches you to make and live by a budget. If you can't afford to buy it I will send you one (seriously just pm me) The book is Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey.



If you never planned to join the military don't do it over this situation. No matter how bleak it looks you can work through it. My friend Lance was a Marine for 2 years, he was killed in Iraq September 7th.
 
My condolences on your friend, but she won't be going into battle. They don't send women to combat.

Also, Bathory, donating plasma gives you like $30 a week.
 
There are poor people everywhere because of lack of jobs. No matter where you live. Bush sucks, but he did not cause all of the problems we have. America is a great country, not a Utopia.

I would say best of luck to you Bathory, but I don't believe in luck. I believe in working your ass off to get what you can. Do that and you should be fine. (not to say you haven't been doing so already. Just keep doing that.)
 
You're forcing me to threadjack again =P

I was referring to all of the unneeded money our president keeps throwing into another country, when he still hasn't done much to fix our economy after 9/11.
 
If your boyfriend got laid off, isn't HE the full time babysitter if you want to find a job?

EDIT: I suppose I'll also address the main topic of this thread.

DON'T JOIN THE MILITARY.

Fuck. Get a job at the closest UPS hub or something. black friday is the start of their high season, and they're going to be looking for all the help they can get, at least through January. It's part time to start, and it's not GREAT money, but it's a good start until you can find something else, and the benefits are pretty sweet. The military will fuck your life up.
 
I gotcha and thanks for the nice words. My point I guess is not to choose a life of service because of a temporary financial hardship. Military isn't just a job it's a lifestyle and I think anyone who doesn't have a fire in their belly for that lifestyle shouldn't pursue it. Whatever her decision I wish her the best.
 
He is only laid off until January. I've put in 12 applications with good references. I've gotten one call so far. By the time I go through the interview and hiring processes it'll be December and we'll have already lost most things, then Dustin will go back to work a month later leaving me with no babysitter so I'd have to quit my job.

I'm debating trying midnights at Walmart. It might be my only option. Or a 24/hr restaurant.



I'll reply to the rest later.
 
You really have no clue about the military, so please don't join just for the cash. Being in the military is a hell of a lot more than a job, especially during war time. You should also keep in mind the fact that the reserves pay barely anything unless you're deployed, and we usually deploy more reservists and Guard units than active duty.
 
So? That sounds perfect for what I just suggested. Get a job at UPS. They will interview and hire you within a week. They'll probably only want you through January when the busy shipping season ends. The night shift at UPS is 11:00 to 4:00 if you wanted to work nights.
I'd rather toss boxes around all night than deal with wal-mart customers, or the late night crowd at a Denny's

Did I mention you get free health insurance for your whole family through the union? That doesn't kick in until you've been there for three months, but by then, your boyfriend should have his job back, and you can decide whether you want to stick with it or not.
 
YEP! My best friend works at Denny's. She will a table of 7-10 teenagers that run her ass off, then only give her $5 for a tip. My best friend is THE BEST waitress that I've ever encountered.

I guess you could try and get a job at a high-scale restaraunt. The tips will be excellent, but they probably won't hire you if you have tattoos that you can't cover up with clothes.

FUCK Wal Mart. I wouldn't work there even if I were homeless.
 
Here's the deal with the military. They can make you any promise you want them too. But once you are in, you belong to them and they will do with you as they please. The recruiter will swear left, right and center that you won't go to Iraq and then someone above his pay grade will send you to Iraq because he doesn't give a shit what you were "told" or "promised" The recruiter's job is to get you in the door and fill the ranks. The higher up's job is to get soldiers into areas where they are needed and he doesn't really care why or how you signed up.

However, it's unlikely that you'd be in much danger in the AF even in Iraq. You won't be going out on combat patrols. Depending on your qualifications you'd likely end up being some kind of desk jock pushing papers or working in facilities or equipment maintenance. You'll notice that most of the dead in Iraq are Army or Marines and nearly no AF or Navy show up in those lists.

But once you sign a commitment for 6 years of this, 2 years of that... well, that's what you'll be serving. You don't get to decide in 4 years that you want to quit. No, you have 4 more years to go. Failure to meet your commitment can get you locked up in the federal prison system.

Also, if you'll call your finance companies they'll usually try and work with you. They don't particularly want to repo your shit. Then they have to go and sell it off and all of that... They'd rather work out some terms and get their money from you even if it takes a little longer.
 
See that's the thing; we live in a pretty depressed area economically; no one can afford to pay to have their house cleaned or to have a bbaysitter. People do those things themselves, or have family members as babysitters. None of ym family can keep Kane after 2pm. This is why I've not had a job since starting school.





For a better look on the situation: Dustin, when not laid off, works the same schedule every week. 10a-7p Mon Tues Thurs and Fri; 10a-4p Saturday, Wed/Sun off. Kane leaves Friday morning and comes back Sunday evening; he goes to his grandma's 45 minutes away every weekend. When I applied for jobs for only Wed and weekends, no one wanted to work around that particular schedule, so I gave up. I have no babysitter after 2pm, and Dustin doesn't get home until anywhere between 7:45 and 9, depending on if he had to work a deal last second (he is a motorcycle salesman, which is why he is laid off in the winter--no one buys bikes October through February). We can't get a state appointed babysitter because we make too much. We can't get food stamps because we make too much. They're taking me off the medical card at the end of this month because we make too much (Kane still gets to be on it though, so that's good). Dustin also pays $200/month child support; we get $800ish for his unemployment. Our rent is $324 (including all utilities--we live in subsidized housing), we have a $413 car payment, $318 car insurance, and a $50 house phone bill (including internet).

That's the deal.
 
Ok, are you guys married? If you're married then you don't make enough to not qualify for food stamps, based on your income guidelines, did you try to get them again after he got his unemployment? Is the child support going to you, or does he have another child he provides for? whatever you made before, regardless of your bills, you're poverty level now, I'd apply for state assistance again.

probably the last time I'll be able to edit. If you want to be a waitress, go for something like chilis, outback, olive garden etc... that's the only way you'll make enough money to make it worth it, if you can get hired on to one of them, you'll be able to afford a babysitter. But you do have Dustin to watch him in the mean time, so that should afford you some leeway to get things figured out and come down with something stable.
 
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