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Job/Money/Survival short-term

  • 07-11-2012 2:00pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Finding myself in a predicament right now. And before it gets disastrous I need to decide what the hell to do.

    I moved up north to get work as the part-time work I had in the south was just pitiful hours wise- good hourly rate but hours were just minimal- sometimes 5 hours in the week. I tried to get another job but just had no luck at all.
    So I moved up north and I found a job after a few weeks but again it's part-time, well, at least this time it's 24 hours a week.

    It's over the minimum wage rate but it's not enough to pay rent, car, etc. and I'm earning much less than I would be if I was on dole, getting rent allowance, etc. in the south. I have been trying to get a second part-time job here but what do you know I can't find anything.

    My first pay day is mid/late november but I will only get one week's pay then. I will have to wait until the end of December to get my first proper pay packet- for 4 weeks of 24 hours per week.

    I don't know how I can survive until then. I would be better off if I went down south again and signed on but I am really reluctant to do that.

    I already have some credit card debt and I'm not long in this job so can't expect to get a loan.

    What's my best option? I'm fast running out of cash and cannot run on one week's wages from late november to christmas.


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  • #2
    gerryk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭gerryk


    That's a tough one. Do you have any skills you could sell on an "ad-hoc" basis? Could you put up flyers in local shops offering some service or other for cash in hand work?


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I'm not sure. I won't say what I used to do for a career but it's not in demand now at all. I have typing skills, etc. but so do a lot of people and I'm not sure how in demand that would be. I have been applying to loads and loads of jobs and just not getting a second one. The first one was hard enough to come by and I had hoped to get one full-time to go with this part-time one as my aim was to earn as much as possible in the next year to go towards going back to college. I'm reluctant to leave it but if I can't get a second job it seems crazy to stay on and be worse off than if I was on the dole. Being in a job is the ideal but not if it's losing me money.

    If I don't get a second job in next 2 weeks or even one full-time job then I'll just have to come back down south I reckon. The job I'm in now isn't a great one career wise so it wouldn't be much of a loss to me in the larger scheme of things.

    I can't see any other way really. So completely frustrating.


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