Long time reader/lurker and few-time poster on the boards, looking for any advice really. I'll detail the situation:
My SO and I are currently unable to get together because of finances, we met just before the big bank collapse in 2008 and have managed to weather it out this long. I graduated May 2012 as a nurse, only to discover that all the hospitals in both my area and his area have hiring freezes on registered nurses, only hiring LPNs and CNAs. I have been steadily searching for employment daily online in nursing, non-profit, and even just entry level jobs anywhere that is advertising, but have an e-mail folder of the "Sorry but" letters stating for various reasons that I am not hirable by them (usually either lack of experience or overqualified - I have a prior degree as well that turned out to be just an expensive piece of paper). There are also other nurses in my area who have gone 4-5 years without employment as well as recently a 250 person layoff from one of the major hospital systems. I also currently am without a vehicle, and have limited savings, and have an autoimmune disease and lately panic attacks which makes matters harder.
Meanwhile, while I was finishing school, my SO had his home foreclosed on, which is where his business and only source of income was located as well (he had been able to make most bills each month and set aside a savings until then - foreclosure is rather expensive). His brother and sister in law as well lost their home at that same time. Through a family friend, he managed to secure a location for his business that includes a small home to live in with his brother and sister in law, however, finances are still tight and my parents had offered to help him financially with some of his bills (he's able to clear 75% of his bills on average each month on his own). This last couple months however, they have been hit by freak weather which has more than doubled the power bill and driven down sales. He has also been looking for steady employment during this as well in computer networking or anything related, though he does not have a formal degree and has chronic nerve damage in his neck from a combat wound while in the Navy. Our relationship seems very solid, steady now, and we'd love to be able to get together immediately but also know that our financial and health situations at this point currently prevent that.
I've gone this entire time with almost no income (I had a small side job helping a nearby family but that ended), and my fiance has been getting assistance from my parents with the reorganization of his business. Until last night. Around last November my parents started waning their support for us. I've been applying to everything I can find, he has been doing everything possible to boost sales as well, I'm even making telephone calls for him to keep in touch with his business to business contacts. My parents have always had a talent for manipulating me and sabotaging me from success, so I had become used to their waffling between both sides of a decision to help out with things. Just now, they're using my SO and his safety to do so as well, which is my own personal last straw. My parents have always had an easy time finding jobs, and I have heard them the last couple days talking behind my back about how I am manipulating them and my supposed dysfunctional behavior has to end. All I am guilty of in this is being unemployed in a bad economy. Only thing I feel guilty of is exposing my SO to their deceptions and not figuring out what their latest manipulation is for me, though I suspect it involves severing contact between my SO and me. I feel so bad that he's getting pulled through my parents' games; while I've adjusted to it through the years, their involving him in it makes me sick.
Our original plan was that I'd get ~3 years RN experience up here while he worked on growing his business. After that time, I would get his state's RN license and start applying there, eventually moving to my own apartment when I got work and him later joining me. Our backup plan was that I'd get a RN job up here and then he would join me here.
Looking for advice or ideas in this situation, whether it be on how to get out of this house, find a job, increase sales so my SO can make his bills each month and have the luxury of eating as well, how to find a leprechaun's pot of gold, etc.... Pretty much, we're at our wits' end as to figure out how to even survive right now, so any ideas will be welcome. Starting small with goals (get any income) and working towards the largest one (finally close the distance).
ETA - Mods, if there is a more appropriate thread, please feel free to move my post there.
My SO and I are currently unable to get together because of finances, we met just before the big bank collapse in 2008 and have managed to weather it out this long. I graduated May 2012 as a nurse, only to discover that all the hospitals in both my area and his area have hiring freezes on registered nurses, only hiring LPNs and CNAs. I have been steadily searching for employment daily online in nursing, non-profit, and even just entry level jobs anywhere that is advertising, but have an e-mail folder of the "Sorry but" letters stating for various reasons that I am not hirable by them (usually either lack of experience or overqualified - I have a prior degree as well that turned out to be just an expensive piece of paper). There are also other nurses in my area who have gone 4-5 years without employment as well as recently a 250 person layoff from one of the major hospital systems. I also currently am without a vehicle, and have limited savings, and have an autoimmune disease and lately panic attacks which makes matters harder.
Meanwhile, while I was finishing school, my SO had his home foreclosed on, which is where his business and only source of income was located as well (he had been able to make most bills each month and set aside a savings until then - foreclosure is rather expensive). His brother and sister in law as well lost their home at that same time. Through a family friend, he managed to secure a location for his business that includes a small home to live in with his brother and sister in law, however, finances are still tight and my parents had offered to help him financially with some of his bills (he's able to clear 75% of his bills on average each month on his own). This last couple months however, they have been hit by freak weather which has more than doubled the power bill and driven down sales. He has also been looking for steady employment during this as well in computer networking or anything related, though he does not have a formal degree and has chronic nerve damage in his neck from a combat wound while in the Navy. Our relationship seems very solid, steady now, and we'd love to be able to get together immediately but also know that our financial and health situations at this point currently prevent that.
I've gone this entire time with almost no income (I had a small side job helping a nearby family but that ended), and my fiance has been getting assistance from my parents with the reorganization of his business. Until last night. Around last November my parents started waning their support for us. I've been applying to everything I can find, he has been doing everything possible to boost sales as well, I'm even making telephone calls for him to keep in touch with his business to business contacts. My parents have always had a talent for manipulating me and sabotaging me from success, so I had become used to their waffling between both sides of a decision to help out with things. Just now, they're using my SO and his safety to do so as well, which is my own personal last straw. My parents have always had an easy time finding jobs, and I have heard them the last couple days talking behind my back about how I am manipulating them and my supposed dysfunctional behavior has to end. All I am guilty of in this is being unemployed in a bad economy. Only thing I feel guilty of is exposing my SO to their deceptions and not figuring out what their latest manipulation is for me, though I suspect it involves severing contact between my SO and me. I feel so bad that he's getting pulled through my parents' games; while I've adjusted to it through the years, their involving him in it makes me sick.
Our original plan was that I'd get ~3 years RN experience up here while he worked on growing his business. After that time, I would get his state's RN license and start applying there, eventually moving to my own apartment when I got work and him later joining me. Our backup plan was that I'd get a RN job up here and then he would join me here.
Looking for advice or ideas in this situation, whether it be on how to get out of this house, find a job, increase sales so my SO can make his bills each month and have the luxury of eating as well, how to find a leprechaun's pot of gold, etc.... Pretty much, we're at our wits' end as to figure out how to even survive right now, so any ideas will be welcome. Starting small with goals (get any income) and working towards the largest one (finally close the distance).
ETA - Mods, if there is a more appropriate thread, please feel free to move my post there.
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