How is everyone out there making it financially?

[buzzycrumbhunger]

51. By the skin of my teeth...

Lost my job 4/16 (fuck you, Walgreens, who were bought out by a hedge fund and are closing stores, cutting staff, and increasing insane duties across the board) and I’m hanging my hat on one of the few jobs I’ve applied to that even bothered to acknowledge my application (at a cat rescue place, which could be my dream job!) Interview Sunday, so fingers crossed.

My son also lost his job months ago because he’d been hired to work in a sign shop but was almost immediately sent out in the field to *install* signs—in the Florida heat--which meant he had to wear his leg (lost thanks to a strep infection at 17), which resulted in a lingering skin infection so they unceremoniously let him go because he couldn’t wear his leg.

So yeah. Unemployment pays a fraction of what we need for the bare necessities and we’re hanging on by a thread.

Sucks to be poor. Feel free to toss something in the cauldron to bolster the odds this interview turns into an offer. *sigh*