I'm a mother of 4 sons, two that are grown and two that are 7. My husband works alternating 12 hour days..two days on, two days off, three days on, three days off, etc. Before, I was working every evening that he wasn't so that we could be each other's child care. This as a waitress, btw. Now, since I'm in my first semester of RN school, I only work four days out of the month....two Saturdays, two Sundays. The loss of incoming money is proving to be substantial.
I'm torn and I'm stressed. I was able to work for the three years it took to get the prerequisites out of the way but our instructors highly recommended that we (the students) not work while we're taking this course, and I can see why. However, if I don't, what are we going to do?
My husband is now facing the repossession of his truck. It will probably be picked up any day now. Before, we thought (or hoped) we could make it....knew it would be tight but still hoped. We didn't take into account other obstacles. One of those obstacles has been our plumbing going haywire. This is extra cost to us that we hadn't anticipated. To make matters worse, our heating unit is under the house so when the pipes broke the unit was flooded and ruined. We're still praying that our homeowner's insurance will help in the $5k cost of replacing that. I do not know what we will do if it doesn't.
I just don't know what to do.....If I work more, how will I ever have time to study and get assignments completed in time? How can I have any hope at all at passing this semester and the remaining three? If I can only get through this nightmare, I could finally have secure employment that I not only love but would benefit my family greatly. If I don't make it, then we'll be stuck in the same vicious financial cycle that we've been stuck in for years. My husband says that, although he hates to lose his truck, he will be alright....I still hate to see him lose it.
Has any of you faced these kind of obstacles? Have you had losses as a consequence of not being able to work as much? How did you deal with it?