Eight Months and Still Counting
Well it has been Eight months and some days since I lost my job with WAMU. Met a girl in my book chat whom Loves WAMU. Granted she never worked for them but she banks with them. Anyway still looking for work. I would say that I am sort of desperate, but not desperate enough to work back at a fastfood restaurant. My whole delima also is lack of transportation. I have to walk a ways to get to the nearest bus. And for me to have to walk down that long dark ass street during the early morning before daylight. Can I just say WOW. But I guess I will have to do what I have to do.
I turned down the TANF part of the program from DCF and signed documents stating that I didn't want them. However they gave me the funds anyway. Well me knowing how the government does and how if someone is going to be screwed, it is going to be Toni Menefee-Ijames. Well A server comes to my house today with a letter stating that I had to show up at the Alamo Texas workforce center or if I didn't then I would risk losing my benefits. The same Tanf benefits I signed that I didn't want. Well I called my case worker and she was just as supprised as I was and thus asked me to come in anyway. Said that maybe I should go along with this program for the month at least and then they would try again to cancel for next month.
Well I decided to go along with meeting her tomorrow and to see if she has anything that can assist me in finding a new JOB. I am going to try some Temp work also.
Other than me having no money coming in to pay my bills and take care of my necessities. Everything else is ok. I got foodstamps which help out the family. And Medicaid for me and the kids.
I am totally confused on what I want to do. I know I want to go back to school and I know that I want to someday write my own romance books. I have also been thinking about taking some writing courses to help my writing and then also I had an idea, well one of my other brenda jackson book club members had the idea, to open a book store for african american authors in her area. And I thought Hell we need that here in SA land. The hispanics and orientals can open up anything under the sun. So why can't we have a Bookstore made up of primarily AA authors' works.
Pray with me yawl that I find my nitch. I have been off too long that now I don't really want a 8 or 9 to 5 job but that is in deed what I need.
I turned down the TANF part of the program from DCF and signed documents stating that I didn't want them. However they gave me the funds anyway. Well me knowing how the government does and how if someone is going to be screwed, it is going to be Toni Menefee-Ijames. Well A server comes to my house today with a letter stating that I had to show up at the Alamo Texas workforce center or if I didn't then I would risk losing my benefits. The same Tanf benefits I signed that I didn't want. Well I called my case worker and she was just as supprised as I was and thus asked me to come in anyway. Said that maybe I should go along with this program for the month at least and then they would try again to cancel for next month.
Well I decided to go along with meeting her tomorrow and to see if she has anything that can assist me in finding a new JOB. I am going to try some Temp work also.
Other than me having no money coming in to pay my bills and take care of my necessities. Everything else is ok. I got foodstamps which help out the family. And Medicaid for me and the kids.
I am totally confused on what I want to do. I know I want to go back to school and I know that I want to someday write my own romance books. I have also been thinking about taking some writing courses to help my writing and then also I had an idea, well one of my other brenda jackson book club members had the idea, to open a book store for african american authors in her area. And I thought Hell we need that here in SA land. The hispanics and orientals can open up anything under the sun. So why can't we have a Bookstore made up of primarily AA authors' works.
Pray with me yawl that I find my nitch. I have been off too long that now I don't really want a 8 or 9 to 5 job but that is in deed what I need.