Hello Everyone. I am Kaci. I am 18. I may be young, but I can give some good advice. If you ever need anything at all, do not heistate to ask. I'll help the best I can.
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I am a senior in high school and in march my boyfriend and I are going to get a place together. He is 23, makes 10.00 and hr. I make 8.00 an hr. The job I have (a local pizza place) well honestly sucks. The manager only make 9.00 an hour so I am pretty sure I don't have enough room to grow there. I do not want my boyfriend to be the one paying all the bills and we do not want to live paycheck-to-paycheck.I want to stay away from fast food jobs and jobs where I stand in one spot(I get dizzy) What can I do to provide an income for us? (link)
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I know you don't want to hear it, but its true. You need to stay at home, where its free because of how bad the economy is.
I'm 19 and my boyfriend is 18, he lives with me and he's moving out in Feb (because thats the deadline for him living with me) his mom left him homeless. He is going to have a hard time making it, JUST HIM. He makes 9.40 an hour. I understand your depressed, but your going to be even more depressed living paycheck to paycheck and even have the possibility of having one of your bills turned off. You have to think, there is more than just being with your boyfriend too; you have gas, insurance, food, electricity, utilities, emergency's, plus furniture you'll have to pay for. (it sounds like you already know that) I'm not saying stay at home for as long as you can; March is pretty far away; but I say save up as much as you can and maybe try to move out in August instead of March that way you guys have alittle more money built up.
Now, as a college student myself; juggling college fulltime, and going to work fulltime, its really hard. But I guess you have to do what oyu have to do to make ends meet.
You may want to postpone college and go during the spring semester, so you can have more time to build up more cash.
As of your job, the economy is so bad, thats its hard to find a job that pays more than 7.25 (which is minium wage in the state I live in) to about 8.30; unless you work in a factory or something like my boyfriend. I'd just look around; going to college will also give you more options for the time being as well;
Like, I'm going for Labor and Delivery; so I work at a hospital just helping out nurses; I don't get paid much, just 9.75 an hour; but I only work 3 ours a day; 4 times a week.
So maybe going and doing something for the degree your learning for will help.
BUT UNTIL THEN, I'd browse some more. I use to work in fast food, and I hated it. Its so stressful! I told myself I'd never let my kids work in fast food. Bless your heart for that! I know it sucks!
But, I'd definitely look around; Idk where you are from, or anything so I can't give you specific places. I'd try to go somewhere where you can work up to a manager position that get paid atleast a difference of .54 cents more than the employees.
But, I wish you the best of luck! I hope you can make it through this sucky economy and do what makes you happy!
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thank you so much for your legitimate advice, for not telling me my boyfriends going to jail, and that I simply will not be able to live with him. Im going to see how much a job in childcare pays..and also my manager who make 9.00 an hour, lives in an apartment with her two kids, im pretty sure she gets government help, but if she can make it so can I! I wish you luck too and I am happy you took time out of your day for me
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