[Hopefull]

My employer was bought by a new company a year ago. Our store's hours have been drastically cut. My manager said that our hours were cut by a hundred hours or so! I am down to eight hours. I suspect that my manager will call me sometimes and ask me to come in outside of that day because he can't run a store on that little of hours. I don't know what to do.
Options: Get different job. What about health insurance? I rather like talking to T and like the drug from Pdoc. I want to continue my relationship with T. But, she is EXPENSIVE!
Option two: get second job and work two jobs until insurance drops me due to the lack of full-time hours. Since I am going to school twice a week, that would leave me with one day for the current employer and three days for the second one. I hate new jobs due to "Oh, God-when-are-they-going-to-fire-me land." I worry a lot when I start a new job. I start my addiction counseling practicum in the fall. I can't live in "Oh God when are they going to fire me land" and start practicum in the fall. I would probably end up in "Oh, God why can't I get my mind to shut up so I can go to bed land."
Option three: Stay with my current employeer and spend down savings. If I do this one, I will end up with "I'm unemployable loser" thinking.

I don't know what to do, whine. I hate my stupid life sometimes. PS. My cat that has diabetes now needs another stupid medication. My cat is going take more medication than I do. (I only take one anti-depressant). I took money out of savings to buy groceries. I will need to take money out again to pay the rent.

((((((((Hopefull))))))))))) AND on top of all of that, nobody responded to your post, which really sucks!!! I like option 2. Things may turn around with your present job and finding a job which offers health insurance is hard to come by these days.
I hope your cat is okay. ((((((((Hopeful and Kittycat))))))))))

i'm sorry about your job......i know how scary that is.......xoxox pat

[Perna]

If you are only working 8 hours do you still get to keep your health insurance? My company had a cut-off in how many hours one had to work in order to get health insurance. When my hours were cut, fortunately my company is privately owned so I worked a deal where I only worked 16-24 hours and yet got to keep my insurance.

If you can save a bit to pay your T out-of-pocket or come up with another arrangement; the changing job scenario might work to your advantage as another health insurance company from other job you'd get to "start over" in number of visits?

It is a hard decision when things stop "fitting" as one is accustomed, what to do about it. I feel like I often held on "too long."

Have you ever looked to see if your school has insurance? Often if you're taking enough credits a semester they have insurance for at least the period of time you're there (or professional associations (in your major) sometimes have health insurance and even as a student you can join and get the insurance).

I had part-time jobs for 10+ years (in my late-30's, early- to mid-40's) and managed to work them into my resume (with schooling and other projects that I made look like self-employment/"consulting") so I actually looked "good" and got more experience and a broader background, etc. instead of it looking like I was "an unemployable loser." After that period I got the best job of my life which literally used all my interests, skills, and education to the hilt. Now is the time to work on some of your own ideas/projects and/or volunteer in your field for experience and contacts, etc. if you want. "School" covers a lot of sins :-) and getting contacts from volunteer or other part-time jobs or even from online "work" can both broaden your horizons and be helpful in smaller, practical ways. What are you studying Hopefull?