What options are there for a single mother, to pay bills and tuition-I tried part time...?

Question

After six years at my job, the plant is closing. I went to school part time for 5 years working towards a degree in bioengineering and couldn't get any help because I made literally a couple bucks over the cutoff, so I worked full time to support myself and my now 9 year old daughter. I felt like a failure because even though I put clothes on her back and a roof over her head and was trying to better our lives......I missed the soccer games. The school parties. Her gymnastics opens. I worked all day, went to school at night, and every free moment was homework. Is there any other way???

Answer 1

Have you tried going to your local workforce or welfare office? There are government programs specfically out there for individuals to upgrade their skills when a manufacturing plant closes. Sometimes, it can extend unemployment benefits until you complete your degree. I have a friend who tapped this benefit.

Answer 2

Yes. Breathe and now take a deep breath...Relax.
I also am a single mom who missed the stuff from school, and I had to travel to keep my job, and never received 1cent of any child support.

Failure is a label, and is is never good to accept any failure labels and take them on as our own. Perhaps if you think of it as life has failures and sometimes it makes us part of them. It is only temporary. It is something that is just happening now. The only thing consistent in life is CHANGE.

1. Try to get a local job, township, county, state or federal and each has the unemployment office, and or internet for your state and they usually have jobs. There's also education - school districts, colleges and universities also need help.
If you get a good state or federal job, you may have to travel and that may be an ok thing in order to get their benefits (state and county have better benefits than federal).

2. You have excellent credentials, and I believe would be an asset to any organization as you have a good work ethic.

3. You will be able to collect unemployment compensation when the plant closes, and that may cover you for 6 months. Then you also have a connectin with their unemployment office.

4. Hopefully your daughter understands, and both of you can support each other during these changes.

5. Practice ...smiling each time you pass a mirror, yes a big smile, because this is just a change, and you are going to adjust and then be better after this change.

6. Remember to put GOD to any challenge. GOD loves challenges, so ask away for anything that is on your mind.

GOD bless