She found a new job in 4 days? That's one heck of a city you live in. The average unemployment length is 6 months. Now would be a good time to start a savings account so you don't have to sweat a car payment the next time one of you is unemployed.
Well, it wasn't just luck... The people had been watching her for about 6 months, seeing what she was doing at her studio, 'cause she was one of the busiest around, yet only had 1 bay in a kiosk, as opposed to 3-4 bays in a store front location. Once they heard the news that this company was shutting down, they came up to her and offered her a position.
95BlackGA i can fully sympathize with your situation. I took a job at a local retail store just to have some extra cash coming in. Not the job i wanted but we needed the money as we were starting to get into credit trouble with having almost all our cards maxed out. Now with taxes coming back soon (yes my wife already filed them) and her bonus we are set to pay off all but 1 credit card. Which we are going to have a extra $400 a month from that alone. So we can put more toward that last card and get that paid off as well.
After that we are setting it up so that my check gets split to different accounts to setup a college fund, retirement fund and a vacation fund. While it wont be much going into them since i only make minimum wage, something is better than nothing right?
Glad to hear you're going to be better off soon!!! We had a credit card, but once we figured it would take quite a bit longer to find jobs, we cut it up. With hospital, car, home, and utility bills, we just could have more debt that we would not be able to pay off.
We've had enough in savings to hold us over, but now all our accounts are empty, and the main account is over drawn. Still have rent to pay too.
Good thing is, we've already filed taxes, and it's scheduled to be cleared and in our bank on the second. However, it's FAR FAR less than what we though.
It should be able to hold us over, and help us move.
