Cat and work (or money making, anyway) advice needed. Or a sympathetic ear.
I hate being poor. I really, truly hate it. I know that compared to many people - even some I work with - I am privileged and doing well. This says more about how deeply fucked up things are in the country and the world than it does about my financial situation.
I need to find a way to make extra money so that I can afford a one bedroom apartment and have ends do more than meet. A standard second job is not really a viable option, since there are already more people looking for jobs than there are jobs and since my work shifts are not very second-job compatible. (Especially the working every other Saturday bit.) I've considered trying to find editing work, but I have no credentials and I lack confidence. I also don't know where to look. The last is more fixable than the first two.
Are there ways to make money from home that aren't scams or sales? Seriously, I can't do sales. You know the old saying about people who could sell ice to Eskimos? I couldn't sell ice to travelers in the Sahara. Passive selling (putting things up on ebay, say) I might manage, but active selling is right out.
One of the reasons why I need to make money, besides a desire to have the ends overlap, is that I'm halfway the owner of a second kitty. I think I've mentioned this before, but just in case I haven't... My ex-roommate adopted a stray cat, who promptly had kittens, as stray female cats are wont to do. One of the kittens - now teenage kitties - is mine. Except I can't take her until I have a one bedroom apartment. I can't have two cats in a studio, and I wouldn't want to if I could. There's not enough room.
No one bedrooms I can afford have opened up in the past few months. And Smokey, the kitten in question, has some sort of allergy that just isn't going away. It's probably a food allergy, but could be - or be being exacerbated by - a contact allergy. They already have a kitty on renal food and a kitty on diabetic food. They've tried a couple of foods, but the only food that doesn't seem to give her problems is the renal food. The very expensive renal food that requires a prescription and is for the elderly cat with renal issues. We're going to find out if the food I'm feeding Max will work for her (and I really, really hope it will, since it's the only food I found that doesn't give him diarrhea), which might solve that problem. But that still leaves them with six cats in a two bedroom apartment condo.*
I need the space. I need a kitchen. Smokey needs a forever home. They need to not have three special needs cats (and three regular cats) in a small condo. Which means I need to figure out how to make more money.
*cries*
*It was a sixties apartment complex that some people bought and fixed up (sorta) and sold as condos.
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I need to find a way to make extra money so that I can afford a one bedroom apartment and have ends do more than meet. A standard second job is not really a viable option, since there are already more people looking for jobs than there are jobs and since my work shifts are not very second-job compatible. (Especially the working every other Saturday bit.) I've considered trying to find editing work, but I have no credentials and I lack confidence. I also don't know where to look. The last is more fixable than the first two.
Are there ways to make money from home that aren't scams or sales? Seriously, I can't do sales. You know the old saying about people who could sell ice to Eskimos? I couldn't sell ice to travelers in the Sahara. Passive selling (putting things up on ebay, say) I might manage, but active selling is right out.
One of the reasons why I need to make money, besides a desire to have the ends overlap, is that I'm halfway the owner of a second kitty. I think I've mentioned this before, but just in case I haven't... My ex-roommate adopted a stray cat, who promptly had kittens, as stray female cats are wont to do. One of the kittens - now teenage kitties - is mine. Except I can't take her until I have a one bedroom apartment. I can't have two cats in a studio, and I wouldn't want to if I could. There's not enough room.
No one bedrooms I can afford have opened up in the past few months. And Smokey, the kitten in question, has some sort of allergy that just isn't going away. It's probably a food allergy, but could be - or be being exacerbated by - a contact allergy. They already have a kitty on renal food and a kitty on diabetic food. They've tried a couple of foods, but the only food that doesn't seem to give her problems is the renal food. The very expensive renal food that requires a prescription and is for the elderly cat with renal issues. We're going to find out if the food I'm feeding Max will work for her (and I really, really hope it will, since it's the only food I found that doesn't give him diarrhea), which might solve that problem. But that still leaves them with six cats in a two bedroom apartment condo.*
I need the space. I need a kitchen. Smokey needs a forever home. They need to not have three special needs cats (and three regular cats) in a small condo. Which means I need to figure out how to make more money.
*cries*
*It was a sixties apartment complex that some people bought and fixed up (sorta) and sold as condos.
This entry was originally posted at http://smurasaki.dreamwidth.org/105757.html.