Dilemmas...dilemmas
As some of you may know, I lost my job a month before I conceived and have been unable to obtain work thus far. I am now 19 weeks and showing big time, so my chances are even slimmer. My resume is all over the place because right after I had #1 I went back to school for mtoedical assisting. Upon graduation I discovered the pay offered was less than if I was a server. I then found a RN program that was accelerated and had no waiting list, so I enrolled immediately. My last day of my final semester I failed out by 2 points (not credits... points in A class). They would not allow me to retake the course. I had a accepted job offer making $23 an hour to start right after I passed my boards which was gone in that instant. So.... I decided that I just had to find a job. Any job. I found a job doing collections for a bank. Then I lost it for stupid reasons (FMLA approved mostly).
So now I am thinking that my only shot of getting a job that will allow us to have a halfway decent life is to go back to school. I would start about 6 weeks after my due date and would either go for LPN (9 months) or ultrasound tech (18 months). This way I would at least be able to make money doing what I know best. I am going back and forth over whether or not to go back to school or should I just take any job I can get. in the short term it would be difficult financially while I'm in school, but when I'm done I could have an awesome job anywhere making decent money. My husband is a line cook, so he doesn't make enough to own a home or anything like that. And if I went and got any old job chances are I would only bring home enough to pay for the day care and my cell bill.
In short... do you think my family would be better off if I went right to school after the baby and we just struggled for that time frame or should I put school on the back burner and just find any job I can? Or better yet does anyone know a legit work at home I could do to balance finances?
I don't want gov't assistance the rest of my life. Sorry this is so drawn out. Just wanted to make sure the situation would be understood in full
So now I am thinking that my only shot of getting a job that will allow us to have a halfway decent life is to go back to school. I would start about 6 weeks after my due date and would either go for LPN (9 months) or ultrasound tech (18 months). This way I would at least be able to make money doing what I know best. I am going back and forth over whether or not to go back to school or should I just take any job I can get. in the short term it would be difficult financially while I'm in school, but when I'm done I could have an awesome job anywhere making decent money. My husband is a line cook, so he doesn't make enough to own a home or anything like that. And if I went and got any old job chances are I would only bring home enough to pay for the day care and my cell bill.
In short... do you think my family would be better off if I went right to school after the baby and we just struggled for that time frame or should I put school on the back burner and just find any job I can? Or better yet does anyone know a legit work at home I could do to balance finances?
I don't want gov't assistance the rest of my life. Sorry this is so drawn out. Just wanted to make sure the situation would be understood in full
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I wouldn't start back until after the baby is born. I really don't want to put my newborn in day care. My daughter didn't go into day care until she was 3 and I think that was the best thing ever. If I go to school I wouldn't have to put the baby in day care but we would be at bare bones until I graduate.
It's basically a question of do I suffer for a little while and have time with my baby or do we struggle for a long time (a little less) and barely see my baby. I am on WIC and other assistance now, but I hate it. I was thinking of doing a catalog sales gig just to hold me over, but I am not girly and I don't cook so I don't think I would do too well... lol.
My hubby is trying to find a second job now so hopefully he does and then I won't have to worry as much. I just feel like I'm in a catch 22 situation.