I'm nearly 26 years old but I have followed a budget since I was 19. I know how to budget. I know how to cut costs in a budget. My costs are as cut as they could get. The next piece of advice people like to go to is then "increase your income" as if it's such an easy task.
Last year I was just shy of 20k. I would love to increase my income. I've been off and on job hunting for about 3-4 months now trying to find something that pays more. But I haven't had any luck. I worked a second job a while back, but that exhausted me and left me with little to no free time.
Sometimes I get really down coming on here and seeing posts of people talking about their incomes. Of course I do live in a city of only about 60k population and a lower col so I doubt I'd ever see numbers that high. Then seeing posts of people talking about their large savings accounts and it makes me feel crappy too because I WANT to save and be more responsible with money. I just don't have enough money to do it. I can't even afford health insurance.
I am enrolled to return back to school this fall and within a year I'll have an associates degree in business administration and then I plan to follow up another semester of 5 classes for an accounting degree. I'm hopeful these could help me eventually be a more valuable employee, but feel a bit doubtful.
I obsess over job search sites nearly all day just praying for that golden opportunity to come in that I could apply for and pray to get. It hasn't happened yet. I have about a year of administration/payroll experience in home health care, then a few months of scheduling, then worked as a home health aide (all at same company). Then I worked as an activities assistant in a nursing home for about 2 years. Now I've been a program assistant at a non profit agency for nearly a year.
Is there any other type of work I could spin any of that experience to that I could potentially make 25k-30k a year before I get any kind of degrees? Are there any resources I might have missed that could be more helpful for me to use to find better/more opportunities to make any more money? Lately I just feel so depressed and hopeless because of the things I want to accomplish with my life and how my inability to be worth any more money to employers is holding me back from that.
Submitted July 26, 2017 at 03:24PM by im_n0t_y0ur_star_x3 http://ift.tt/2w13OFD
