I (26f) have a 6 month old baby with my boyfriend (32m) of 2 1/2 years. I am doing so badly financially that I want to cry looking at my bank accounts. In my early 20’s just before meeting him I had 33k in my bank account and I was doing so much better than I am now. I managed to buy a piece of wooded land with it on a mountain in West Virginia but I can’t develop it right now. I have no money and had not had any income since 7 months ago. I have 1.4k of credit card debt from making a trip to another state to try to work it out with my baby daddy but I had nowhere to live so I went back to my mother’s house. I used the last of my savings to buy an old RV but now it is broken down in another state at his dad’s house and it will be a few weeks before I can sell it. His dad is threatening to have it towed. I need a job but I am living at my mother’s house in an economically desolate area where it is difficult to get a job. I would have to move to the capitol of my state 2h away to have a better chance of finding employment. The father of my child is completely broke, unemployed, lost everything in a few months and is facing bankruptcy and having his truck repossessed. He didn’t sign the birth certificate or establish legal paternity. I cannot rely on him for any kind of support. He doesn’t even have money for a phone service. But he has threatened to take me to court. I have to make money ethically because I am a mother and I can’t have things used against me in court. I have a CPC license to be a medical coder but he had me thrown out of the only job I ever had in that field after 3 days and I never managed to get another one. I have a clear criminal record, a paid off car, do not drink and never did drugs or smoked cigarettes. I have no real work experience in my field and have never been good at getting jobs because of social anxiety so I need to take any job I can get seriously. I have transfer college credits for engineering but it’s not enough to do anything with. I was forced to move and be uprooted so many times this whole relationship and I wish I had focused on my own stability instead of having a child with him. The first step is to pay off my debt and get a job. How can I get enough income to not suffer like this?
Submitted October 14, 2023 at 10:19PM by floralia999 https://ift.tt/kzHhpnP
