Some context for my mother's situation - after getting a degree in China, she immigrated to the US and was a housewife for about 18 years, during which she basically didn't work at all. Now, in the past seven years to now, she's tried to do stocks but just ended up losing a lot of money. She's recently divorced my father, and had a little over a few thousand dollars to worth with, but she keeps doing stocks and losing money so I'm not sure how long that will last. I've asked her how much she has left, but she refuses to tell me. I've incessantly tried to convince her to stop and find another job, but she's lost hope in her ability to find work in America given her situation, despite what I try to say.
Are there any viable career options for a 50 year old woman who speaks somewhat broken English (she can hold a conversation fine, but she clearly lacks some vocabulary for more complex ideas) and doesn't have any recent job experience? She's recently gotten a life insurance license. She's also shown interest in becoming a pharmacy technician because I've recently become licensed. However, due to her language barrier, lack of job experience, and age, she's ultimately come to give up hope in these ideas.
I'm seriously worried about her deteriorating mental state. She refuses to give up doing stocks because she thinks she has the ability to eventually make money through them, but won't listen to any other ideas because she genuinely believes any job requiring human interaction in the United States is impossible due to her situational barriers.
Any ideas on potential jobs that could potentially coerce her out of her really worrying state of draining money and emotional health to stocks would be greatly appreciated. I'm a 19 year old college student, so I don't know much about job searching or career options, especially for someone in a situation like my mother's.
Submitted December 15, 2017 at 11:52PM by helpmomplease http://ift.tt/2kBRJT4
