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So I've been stuck for 2 years as a crap hole of a job. I make less (due to some loop hole of theirs) than I did to begin with (starting at 8.50 an hour, not at 8.15 an hour) and don't get benefits due to another loop hole. I accepted the low paying job under the assumption that I would be getting a raise at 6 months and promotions by now. Wrong.
I'm a somewhat single mom (engaged, but not to the father) and it's rough. I make 200 a week IF I'm lucky. Mostly I make about 150 a week and it's driving me up the wall. Every stinking pay check I'm selling things to try and make ends meet. My light bill is sky high, backed up on rent and all other bills, and I myself have had more Ramen than I ever care to have (to save the better food for my daughter)
Applied for medicaide but I make $50 too much a month. Yeah. So now I have $10,000 in hospital bills due to the seizures I was having.
I'm at my wits end, my job is so extremely stressful in every aspect that it's part of why I was having seizures. I need to quit but don't know what to do about it. I don't have a license and my fiance works, our schedules work around eachother so thankfully I no longer have to pay for child care (as I can't afford it) and I have a ride to work.
I need to quit, I can't take this stress much longer. I get treated like absolute ***** by my employers as well as customers, I've had a decrease in pay even though I was the best employee they have (got the decrease just a couple months after my employee of the month certificate) and I can't afford it but I don't know where to go if I do. But I'm afraid it will do more damage to my health and put me that much more in debt from these seizures.
So I'm considering certificate programs, as I need something to help ASAP and not 5 years down the road, I'm financially drowning (I know, it's a recession many of us are) but I know those who have gone to school for nursing, graduated and been out of school for years and still haven't found a job. Same thing with paramedics and many other jobs. It's like they tell you "You have to go to school to make it" but even those who go to school often can't get work in their field. My friend who graduated nursing school two years ago is still working at hooters, can't get a job anywhere and she lives in a large city.
So basically, any advice on what to do in my current situation, how to pick a certificate program, one that would actually be easier to find a job, and any advice on anything at all? I need out of this hole, it's suffocating me
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I'd lock my hands behind my head, I'd cover my heart and hit the deck, I'd brace myself for the impact if I were you.
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