Can someone help me figure out my best path out of this hole I’m in?
Went back to nursing school as a mature student (30s).. used all my savings to move to a new state where I was eligible for loans to go to school. Graduated couple months ago .. with honours! And completely broke.
It was going to cost over $1000 in state board fees to get licensed in that state, rent is ridiculous and the only job I could find was a minimum wage grocery cashier that I worked for the last few months. Started relying on payday loans to make rent and getting my nursing license was seeming farther away each day.
So I took a big risk and moved back to my home state and am staying with my sister (a drug addict.. no judgement but it’s not an ideal environment with her and her friends/dealers/buyers coming and going all day and night). But she’s letting me stay rent free so I’m making due. I have less than $100 to my name. No car. In this city there is no public transit and it’s impossible to get a job without a car. I need $400 to pay off all the nursing licensing fees here before I can become a licensed nurse, so until then the only jobs I qualify for are things like amazon warehouse, grocery, etc. But again no car so I can’t get to them. Depending on food pantries for food.
My credit is average (630s) but I have never been approved for a credit card so I don’t have one. I can’t even donate plasma because I have no way to get there without a car.
I just need help figuring out what my options are and what steps to take. I’m feeling hopeless because I’m so close to being a nurse and even had offers I had to turn down due to not having my license completed. I could be making $60k plus but as of now I’m almost homeless and barely have enough to eat and those $400 in fees are the only thing stopping me.
Submitted December 26, 2020 at 10:29PM by VSCO_birls https://ift.tt/3hjaYhk
