I wish I could erase my post here. Suddenly I'm embarassed that I said that. Candy, that's really great that your employers have been supportive. I hope that there are more like them out there. Maybe a large part of my problem was that I was too afraid to tell them why I was having trouble, or maybe I didn't even recognize it at the time. Let's see, it was two jobs. The first one, I was a personal attendent for a student with physical disabilities. I was pretty open with her. She fired me because I was discouraged that as I got more experienced and more efficient, I got paid less and couldn't make ends meet. She didn't think that should be her problem. But depression was kicking in at the same time, and I wasn't very effective in the way I presented the problem I guess. The other job, I was actually fired 3 times but kept begging for my place back. Lots of things were irritating me there, including having found out that they were paying me less than minimum wage.

I don't know why I'm suddenly so embarassed about my previous post and feeling compelled to explain this stuff. It's probably not even relevant, especially since I didn't see the TV show in question - this topic just happened to touch on one of my current issues.