What do I do
So I have been every relaxed about updating my blog, I always have been, everyone knows that. and I usually whine about stuff when I do post something. Today I'm going to continue this tradition...
In the last couple of weeks, my life has started to full apart. I'm not even sure what I'm suppose to do at this point. As you may know about a year ago my job did what every other company was doing, cut everyone's pay; they choose to cut up 10% to keep from having to fire 25% of the employees. So while it wasn't something anyone was happy about we understood. There was always the promise that we would get our money back when thing improve. Well a year later and several rounds of firing we still have not gotten our money back and have been told that we need not ask for raises, they are not giving them out. So after being with the company for just short of 12 years I makes $10.80. According the my W2 I made $19,500 last year. I'm not even sure how I live on this, supporting both me and my Grandmother. I need to find another job. I had to leave school, because the tuition was too high and I know have to get ready to start paying back those loans. I'm not even sure how I'm going to making that money magically appear.
Which leads me to my next life challenge....I was cooking dinner last week and notice there were these tiny holes in the wall. I call Terminix, which came out and said I have termites, bugs living between the siding of the house and the house, AND wood burrowing beetles. Which means the house will have to be tented. Costing $25,000! My grandmother's house isn't worth that. It's a 125 year old farm house with nob and tube wiring that water damage. So what the hell do I do? I can't afford to live on my own. Grams can't afford to live on her own, SS barely pays the 2 bills she does pay. I can't afford to sink money into this house, that I'm never going to own. For $100,000 I could tear the house down and get a nice modular home set up and ready to go including the things I would need to buy for it; furniture and such. The only problem is I can't make that payment. I can't let my grandmother and I be homeless either, so what do I do? Someone please tell me! I'm open to ideas. ANY IDEAS.
In the last couple of weeks, my life has started to full apart. I'm not even sure what I'm suppose to do at this point. As you may know about a year ago my job did what every other company was doing, cut everyone's pay; they choose to cut up 10% to keep from having to fire 25% of the employees. So while it wasn't something anyone was happy about we understood. There was always the promise that we would get our money back when thing improve. Well a year later and several rounds of firing we still have not gotten our money back and have been told that we need not ask for raises, they are not giving them out. So after being with the company for just short of 12 years I makes $10.80. According the my W2 I made $19,500 last year. I'm not even sure how I live on this, supporting both me and my Grandmother. I need to find another job. I had to leave school, because the tuition was too high and I know have to get ready to start paying back those loans. I'm not even sure how I'm going to making that money magically appear.
Which leads me to my next life challenge....I was cooking dinner last week and notice there were these tiny holes in the wall. I call Terminix, which came out and said I have termites, bugs living between the siding of the house and the house, AND wood burrowing beetles. Which means the house will have to be tented. Costing $25,000! My grandmother's house isn't worth that. It's a 125 year old farm house with nob and tube wiring that water damage. So what the hell do I do? I can't afford to live on my own. Grams can't afford to live on her own, SS barely pays the 2 bills she does pay. I can't afford to sink money into this house, that I'm never going to own. For $100,000 I could tear the house down and get a nice modular home set up and ready to go including the things I would need to buy for it; furniture and such. The only problem is I can't make that payment. I can't let my grandmother and I be homeless either, so what do I do? Someone please tell me! I'm open to ideas. ANY IDEAS.