 Purred: Fri Jun 12, '09 4:43pm PST |
 | |  | | Hi! I'm Sandy, I've been with my Mistress for over two years. Most of that time she was working as a telephone operator for a charity, answering phones and doing data entry, etc. She did like it for a long time, then things shifted and she started to not like it so much, especially her supervisior. She was going to stay, but they let her go. She didn't let that bother her too much, and she was actually home for the last couple weeks of Squeakers' (my siis, she died in December at age six from renal failure) life.
Before she was laid off she was just surfing the net and found out about careers in Veterinary medicine, without having to go thru years and years of school and residency. Veterinary Assistant interested her and so she considered taking a correspondance course thru Penn Foster schools. Since she was still working, she thought she wouldn't have time and she wasn't always a good student anyway.
But when she was laid off, that gave her room to do what she wanted. Almost. She is visually impaired, blind in one eye, and sometimes that gets in the way, but she didn't let it! After the rush of the holiday season, she signed up for the course.
In the spring, she also signed up to volunteer for Feline Rescue, a no-kill shelter just for cats, to get some experience in. She also signed up with Goodwill again to get a job coach who helps her find job leads and fill out applications, goes on interviews, etc.
it's only been a month since she started up with Melanie, her coach again, but they've found some good leads. .. no takers though.
At least, with Squeakers gone there are no huge vet bills anymore (not saying that she is glad that she's gone, she misses Squeaks alot) and I don't go thru tons of food and litter every month, also she gets SSI and our building is subsidized, so the rent went down after she got laid off.
She, like everyone else, has to watch her spending. . alot. No HDTV for her! Lucky she got the new computer last summer.
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My mommy isn't working right now and daddy was laid off for months looking for work. Daddy got a new job 2 months ago but it is hard right now trying to catch up and not having any safety net to fall back on because we used it while daddy was looking for work. Mommy stays home with me and my little human brother for now. She is a hair stylist and actually can't afford the rent on a station to go back to work. Need the money but have to have money to make it. So we are making due and mommy knows how to stretch a dollar. We know it could be worse and are fortunate that we have income finally coming in but it's a scary place to be right now in this economy.
but with meowmy not working, this is VERY hard on her parents too. We're able to get by OK for now on unemployment but it ends in September. Her retirement plan took a BIG hit. She can start withdrawing money from it in October when she's 59-1/2 but it won't help much. When meowmy finally does get a job, she'll never be able to retire!