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At My Wit’s End

I work in education and I don't make much money. Currently my take home every month is around 1800. I have been in this job for 2 years. I also have a chronic pain condition and, in America, you have to be with a company for a year in order to get protections and access to FMLA. My health insurance is also pretty good with my job and covers my 4x/year neurology visits. So trying to get a new job is pretty challenging. I also have 55K in student loans that will be forgiven if I can stay in the education industry for 10 years so that's a big incentive. I've been attempting to get a part-time job to help make ends meet but haven't gotten any interviews. I am free nights and weekends. I even got a rejection note from Kroger. I've tried editing my resume different ways, including…


I work in education and I don't make much money. Currently my take home every month is around 1800. I have been in this job for 2 years. I also have a chronic pain condition and, in America, you have to be with a company for a year in order to get protections and access to FMLA. My health insurance is also pretty good with my job and covers my 4x/year neurology visits. So trying to get a new job is pretty challenging. I also have 55K in student loans that will be forgiven if I can stay in the education industry for 10 years so that's a big incentive.

I've been attempting to get a part-time job to help make ends meet but haven't gotten any interviews. I am free nights and weekends. I even got a rejection note from Kroger. I've tried editing my resume different ways, including not mentioning my higher education, but then there's a big gap on my resume because I can't include the years I was teaching as an adjunct instructor (and sadly making less than I do now.)

The big kicker is that my monthly house payment is about to go from 930/mo to 1275 because of property taxes. I've been trying to find other options but a one bedroom apartment around here is currently going for 1250 so it wouldn't even be worth it.

I'm honestly about to just give up. I deal with depression and anxiety every day. I'm just constantly sad and stressed out and that definitely doesn't help with my pain.

I just needed to vent. I hope y'all understand.

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