My girlfriend works two jobs. One of these gives her, during the busy nine months of the year, as many as 40 - 45 hours per week. The other, during that same period of time, can serve up as many as 20 - 25 hours per week, although it usually hovers around 20 (more than that depends upon somebody calling in sick, or being injured on the job, both of which are frequent occurrences).
I am currently training in a new job, which is hopefully going to provide me with 40 hours per week. Overtime is unlikely; this place delivers a written writeup if you clock in one or two minutes early for your shift. Personally, I think they should write up the supervisor on duty instead, as said individual's key is required for one to clock in or out.
I'm looking for a second job, but this is not going to be easy. It will most likely mean a significant loss of whatever hours I might otherwise obtain in my current job, so I have to be careful; there's no point in jeopardizing a job that gives me 40 hours for the potential of acquiring a second... not when my total hours per week won't increase.
My girlfriend and I will be working almost exactly 66% of the week. That's equivalent to just over 4.5 continuous, 24-hour days of work per week. A lot of young couples in this area are in this situation; if nothing else, it's dramatically slowed down the rate of unexpected pregnancies in young people. People are genuinely terrified of having a child that they won't have either the time or the money to care for properly.
My girlfriend makes minimum wage at one job, and just over that at the other. I make minimum wage at my job. We're doing somewhat better than we were before I found work again, due in no small part to the fact that our grocery bill has shrunk substantially since neither of us is home for much of the day. Eating happens at work, or it doesn't happen at all; both are frequent.
We're hoping that, with this much work between the two of us, we might be able to afford a few luxuries... like, some decorations for our walls, maybe a few DVDs, some movies. We might start going out to eat once or twice per month... schedule permitting, of course. If things do really well, we might even be able to afford digital cable; getting anything else is pointless, unless we also got TiVO. We wouldn't get much use out of a cable package which required us to adhere to a broadcast schedule, after all.
I'm 28. My girlfriend is 20. I am ashamed of the man I am, being unable to provide for her better than this... and I'm more than a little angry at the way things are, and I'm sorry; the fact that you are in the very same situation does not make me feel better, nor do I feel that the fact that more people are suffering makes things somehow more tolerable. That is the absolute worst, most horrible, most brainwashed excuse for mass apathy which I have ever heard.
If anybody's got some bright ideas as to how a group of people of any size might make an impression towards change... on any level... you've got an ear, at least, and an offer to do what I can to help you. If one person can make a difference, in some small way, then I plan on doing so. I am 28, and my girlfriend is 20, and we are good, intelligent, likable people, and I fucking refuse to live like this any longer.
I am currently training in a new job, which is hopefully going to provide me with 40 hours per week. Overtime is unlikely; this place delivers a written writeup if you clock in one or two minutes early for your shift. Personally, I think they should write up the supervisor on duty instead, as said individual's key is required for one to clock in or out.
I'm looking for a second job, but this is not going to be easy. It will most likely mean a significant loss of whatever hours I might otherwise obtain in my current job, so I have to be careful; there's no point in jeopardizing a job that gives me 40 hours for the potential of acquiring a second... not when my total hours per week won't increase.
My girlfriend and I will be working almost exactly 66% of the week. That's equivalent to just over 4.5 continuous, 24-hour days of work per week. A lot of young couples in this area are in this situation; if nothing else, it's dramatically slowed down the rate of unexpected pregnancies in young people. People are genuinely terrified of having a child that they won't have either the time or the money to care for properly.
My girlfriend makes minimum wage at one job, and just over that at the other. I make minimum wage at my job. We're doing somewhat better than we were before I found work again, due in no small part to the fact that our grocery bill has shrunk substantially since neither of us is home for much of the day. Eating happens at work, or it doesn't happen at all; both are frequent.
We're hoping that, with this much work between the two of us, we might be able to afford a few luxuries... like, some decorations for our walls, maybe a few DVDs, some movies. We might start going out to eat once or twice per month... schedule permitting, of course. If things do really well, we might even be able to afford digital cable; getting anything else is pointless, unless we also got TiVO. We wouldn't get much use out of a cable package which required us to adhere to a broadcast schedule, after all.
I'm 28. My girlfriend is 20. I am ashamed of the man I am, being unable to provide for her better than this... and I'm more than a little angry at the way things are, and I'm sorry; the fact that you are in the very same situation does not make me feel better, nor do I feel that the fact that more people are suffering makes things somehow more tolerable. That is the absolute worst, most horrible, most brainwashed excuse for mass apathy which I have ever heard.
If anybody's got some bright ideas as to how a group of people of any size might make an impression towards change... on any level... you've got an ear, at least, and an offer to do what I can to help you. If one person can make a difference, in some small way, then I plan on doing so. I am 28, and my girlfriend is 20, and we are good, intelligent, likable people, and I fucking refuse to live like this any longer.
