Acts of Kindess Part 3: Light at the end of the Tunnel
Or so I thought.
It was now October and still no job. She’d gotten an interview and a job offer but it didn’t work out. There are some things I won’t put out in public, and the circumstances surrounding this part are one of them. Those who know this person probably know why she ended up not getting this first job.
Her birthday has now arrived, and even though I really couldn’t afford to do so, I got her something small, bought her dinner, and we celebrated in our friend fashion. It was a good time.
Next up is the holiday season and at this point I’m really getting worried. The money is running out and I can’t keep this up. Again, I mention that the retail stores should be hiring for the holidays. Again, I’m disappointed when she won’t simply hop a bus to the outlet stores or the other shopping centers to apply. Granted, she did this at one time later on, but I’m really not sure how much she really accomplished. She wouldn’t communicate with me, which was very frustrating. I was still applying online for her, or sending her links to jobs. I had asked her to use an email account I’d set up for her so that I could send resumes on her behalf, and also see where she was applying so I didn’t duplicate it. Most of the time, she said she ‘forgot’. Ok.
In the good sector though, we were also hosting our very first Thanksgiving dinner with friends and my mom. Neither one of us had a clue how to cook a turkey, but we did it. We did the whole dinner ourselves and were so proud. It was actually edible & no one got food poisoning! We had a great time with our friends that night.
She did in fact use some of the money on her food card to help with the expense as well.
And finally…a job. I found a job listing and sent it to her. It seemed like she didn’t do anything with it in a timely manner, so I sent her resume in. The day of her interview, she got the call that her grandfather died. She had been close to him & was very upset, but set it aside & got to the interview. She got the job.
She still had no money and she said her family wouldn’t pay for her to go to her grandfather’s funeral. She was very distraught, so I called out for some help. Chickie and Sage contributed with me to the $300 airfare to get her to Washington to say goodbye. She swore over the phone to all of us she would start paying us back immediately after she started getting a paycheck: 2-3 weeks away.
Now this is right after Thanksgiving, and Christmas is fast approaching. The job required her to be there at 6 am for the first month for training. Well, that wasn’t going to work using the public transportation. So Sage agreed to loan her the money to buy a cheap used car. He could only do so much, and there was a car loan agreement signed between them to make it a business transaction. The car wasn’t the greatest, needing work, and to be registered. The payments were only $100 per month for 8 months, and her wages made it so she could easily afford it…or so we thought.