I just finished up my Junior Year of high school in a fairly well-to-do area of Southern California. My mom recently lost her six-figure job and, despite her income, it seems we have nothing saved up. According to her, 3 months is about the most we can make it as is. She has already applied for unemployment and has been rewarded an (unsurpisingly low) amount of $450/week. It costs us about $4000/month for housing alone.
She's a business consultant and I've been told its not easy to find a job in that field. I'm looking for work at local tutoring companies (of which there are a good amount) since I'm strong academically, already tutor people privately (though since summer is starting up I don't have anyone right now), and want to have something more significant than burger flipper on my college application; However, I will look for other options if need be.
She and I are both hoping to not have to move and make other drastic changes since I just have one very important year left of high school before college and doing so may screw things up for me.
I get that I'm pretty fortunate and that plenty have it worse than me; I also know that there's probably not much I can do, but if there is—or, if there's anything you might know that my mom might not—then please help me out.
Thanks, I really appreciate it.
Submitted June 18, 2019 at 09:01PM by shitpostingbro5 http://bit.ly/2MS653c
