I am 16 y/o girl and have five younger siblings. I don’t have a job because school takes all of my free time, but I’m planning on getting a job over the summer.
My family is pretty lower class and we need food stamps to get by and are in crazy debt. We are currently filing for bankruptcy.
As you can see, the situation is pretty terrible, but it only gets worse. Since my parents don’t have healthcare, my dad has not stepped in a doctors office in years. He is very obese and lives a very sedentary lifestyle, as he has a job where he drives around all day long sitting, then comes home and sleeps. I’m afraid this won’t last him long. It’s very hard for my mom to get a job that fits around all of her children’s schedules and her medical issues.
I don’t know what to do. If he gets sick, he won’t be able to work, leaving us with only medical bills and no source of income. The best case scenario would be for me to somehow get a stable job before something happens, and by then my sister can drive everyone around so my mom can get a job. However, I don’t see that happening anytime soon. My life calling is to join the medical field, which would leave me also in debt, broke, and with a minimum wage job until I graduate for a very long time.
What can we do to prepare?
Submitted September 14, 2020 at 09:20PM by RamaHamed https://ift.tt/2FxAtgi
