Opinions?
I am having a hard time making a decision.
I have always wanted to go back to school. I have applied, and they have offered me a $425 pell grant for the summer semester. I am to receive a check soon from the closing of a small retirement account from my last job that should be big enough to cover the rest of the semester. BUT…
Rick and I neither one have found a job yet, and I received my last unemployment check this week. Hence the dilemma…
Do I go on with my school plans, or use the check to pay bills and buy groceries? If I don’t go back to school now, I may not ever. But if we don’t find jobs soon, we will have to apply for food stamps and borrow from my mother to pay the truck payment… Both of which I would rather cut off my right arm before doing…(bad enough we are living in her house already!)
My heart wants to go to school, but my mind is telling me that first things are first, and I should use it to pay bills.
Every week, we get the papers, and unless you are a nurse or a truck driver, there are absolutely no jobs. Rick has been looking in the town where he used to work, but I would have to take him over, then come home, and then go back and get him. At 30 miles one way, times 4, and my truck gets 20 miles to the gallon, and gas is $2.89/gal. That is approximately 6 gallons, 17.34 a day in gas, 6 days a week would be $104.04, not to mention wear and tear on my truck, which already has 115,000 miles on it… And the best jobs around only paying $12-15 an hour… Am I rambling?? LOL…
I just don’t know how we’re getting out of this one.
And no, before you say it, we have no saving and could not afford to move anywhere…
On the bright side, I am getting very creative at feeding my family cheaply…LOL
I have always wanted to go back to school. I have applied, and they have offered me a $425 pell grant for the summer semester. I am to receive a check soon from the closing of a small retirement account from my last job that should be big enough to cover the rest of the semester. BUT…
Rick and I neither one have found a job yet, and I received my last unemployment check this week. Hence the dilemma…
Do I go on with my school plans, or use the check to pay bills and buy groceries? If I don’t go back to school now, I may not ever. But if we don’t find jobs soon, we will have to apply for food stamps and borrow from my mother to pay the truck payment… Both of which I would rather cut off my right arm before doing…(bad enough we are living in her house already!)
My heart wants to go to school, but my mind is telling me that first things are first, and I should use it to pay bills.
Every week, we get the papers, and unless you are a nurse or a truck driver, there are absolutely no jobs. Rick has been looking in the town where he used to work, but I would have to take him over, then come home, and then go back and get him. At 30 miles one way, times 4, and my truck gets 20 miles to the gallon, and gas is $2.89/gal. That is approximately 6 gallons, 17.34 a day in gas, 6 days a week would be $104.04, not to mention wear and tear on my truck, which already has 115,000 miles on it… And the best jobs around only paying $12-15 an hour… Am I rambling?? LOL…
I just don’t know how we’re getting out of this one.
And no, before you say it, we have no saving and could not afford to move anywhere…
On the bright side, I am getting very creative at feeding my family cheaply…LOL
posted by Amethyst Rising at 9:34 AM
3 Comments:
Being poor myself, I wish to hell that I could help you. But as it is, the only options you may have at this time is to either start selling your valuables or apply at the local Employment Office, and see if maybe they can help you. Otherwise, you may have to take a job at any grocery store or other place like it in your town.
But enough about that. In my experience, following your heart is always the best option. Minds screw things up too much because they're biased or too prone to mistakes. Sure, you could use that last check to buy groceries, but then they're eaten and gone.
Put it toward school, and look for opportunities along the way, like the bulliten boards on campus.
I once heard a wise man say that people look at opportunity in either of two ways:
Opportunity is now here.
Opportunity is nowhere.
Which one are you?
Our "local" unemployment office is 90 miles away... I don't have gas money to get there, and there are no listing for this county anyway...
There are no malls, no factories, no manufacturing, no department stores, no Wal-Marts, nothing of the sort in this county. The entire population of the county is about 2300 people, 60% of whom are in the farming industry.
There is a comapny that sells jewelry to women in home parties that I am thinking about starting with... I don't know, I'm not exactly the "ladies group" kinda gal, but I guess I can pretend... The dealer gets 50% of the sales frome very party, which means if she sells $500 worth of jewelry, she gets $250... Not bad for 2 hours work, LOL
(Oh, and the going back to school is online, not on campus... FHSU Campus is a 2 hour drive away...)
Going back to school to me means taking online classes... I will not be on a campus at any time... Unfortunately there isn't one close enough to be affordable to drive back and forth...
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