I lost my job last Firday. I had to leave work at one o'clock on Wednesday to pick up my son because he was throwing up in class it was a very bad accident on the highway Thursday so I was seven minutes late and so was other workers. They told me that they fired me because I didn't call my job after I picked up my son. I gave them 18 years and come to find out the job doesn't even offer pensions if I would of knew that I would of been got a new job years ago when they hired Tim as the new Manager he been trying to get me out of there for the past five years.

A single father of a ten-year-old son and I need a career. I'm truly tired of jumping from jobs to jobs

Hey saw your posts and I just happened to come across your post in my email......the sad thing about your post is that I am a Federal Felon and got home in 2015. Part of my release was to obtain employment immediately so I can become what our country deems a productive member of society? I was able to find a job very easily and quickly. Which I can say was not my dream job nor wages that I could possibly live on being that I owed $12,000 in back child support which came out of my check being paid bi weekly.......so for 80 hours or more working kitchen prep after taxes and child support I was left with $150 for two weeks of work but I had to do what was needed to fulfill my reintroduction to society as they call it.......while I was gone I took a program in the Federal Prison called RDAP......it was a blessing and that may sound off a little......my point is I got the job and while I had the job I still sought out other employment opportunities. It’s easier to find a job when you have one. I have about 20 years of production experience. So as I walked the line stayed focused and remember what the RDAP program had taught me before I got back home to a son who needed his father and I as a father wanted to be the best I could. So before I left To come home it was ingrained into my head and every one else that was heading back by the counselors. To be prepared for a million NO’s before I get that YES.....I was then hired onto a warehouse shipping and receiving job with higher wages......thought it would make difference in my financial status. WRONG!! Child support was still killing me and even though I know of ways to provide a life style that would be very substantial........but my time which was only 5 years away had changed me. The program changed me. Not only me but the way I thought and felt emotionally, physically and mentally....before I left I had a job at Kellogs production factory which after a year there I was bringing home close to $2100 a week. All health benefits paid for by the company.......so imagine bringing home that kind of money after taxes which I was paid weekly and all of a sudden in a blink of an eye it was over because of foolish mistakes I made in my life.......So now home and contious progress after working in the warehouse for a couple years I finally got a job with a company that pays just as well money wise and health benefits.......and I’m still continually seeking out new, different and excellerating job opportunities........I don’t ever write on blogs I see about people not able to find jobs opportunities when there are jobs out there....it may not be the one you hoped for or your dream job but some money is always gonna be better then no money.......A wise man said “Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will open. Ask and it will be given” Don’t give up!!! I think it was a Rocky movie......when he’s fighting out in the street against Tommy Guns. Rocky gets back up and says “I didn’t hear no bell?” So the fight was still on and was not over. It’s not your fault if you get knocked down......but it is your fault if you so shall choose to not get back up or just plain stay down.......Good Luck on your journey. Your hunt. Skip all the BS and do as a respectable mother. A loving mother would do.....Stand back up. One foot in front of the other each day and never live anymore then one day at a time. Cause you can’t live no more then that. Tomorrow will take care of it’s self........all I have said in time will show all who you are and define your character......and with all that you’ll see not only doors but windows as well that will open for you for......which leaves you with the greatest gift we all have in this country and life. FREE WILL........

Working my most recent job experience has opened my eyes towards socializing I’ve become more social when speaking not only with kids but with adults due to my past job.

I’m looking for part-time work from home job that includes data entry and any and all clerical work. I’m a single mom , work full time, but am ready to make some extra bucks. If anyone knows of anyone needing some help...please let me know.

Hello my name is Tatiana and I am 24 years old. I do not look for anyone to pity me, but I could use a helping hand or at least some sense of direction. I take full responsibility for what I am going through but I do need help and I don’t know who to turn to. I am a single mother who cherish, loves, and adores her son. My world revolves around my baby he is the love of my life. When I was 17 I didn’t have help from my sons dad, so I turned to my mom for help. I thought she had my best interest at heart and my son’s as well but her actions show the complete opposite of her words. And no I’m not trying to bash my mother but it’s like you know how some people will say I’m a outsider looking in sometimes the outsiders are the ones who see the real except they’re the ones who try to help you and the insiders will sit and not say anything or act as if they can’t do anything. I never call my mom a bad mom because nobody’s perfect and everybody makes mistakes. But if the shoe fits you wear it right. Now I was a minor when I gave my mom joint custody with me. Also my mom is what do you call it manipulative and I was intimidated of my mother, she was not the reason I had dropped out of highscool I dropped out because I got pregnant that was the hardest decision of my life. And even tho I was, still am going through, and went through a lot after I had my son I made it a promise to myself that I’d better myself to be a better person period! I’m a work in progress and I say things I don’t mean sometimes everyone does. But one thing I learned growing up with no mom or a mom in and out of my life when she felt like it was that, that was not love yes my mom might’ve loved me she brought me in this world but a mom loves there child unconditionally and no matter what they are there for them! I don’t want to be or I’m not trying to be that kind of mom. I know how that feels. And I promised myself that any child I have or any child for that matter, shit all children I am around or ever been around they will get my love unconditionally because everybody needs someone. And if I love you my actions show it! My mom try’s to assassinate my character to any and everyone rather she knows them or not. Like I said I’m not perfect but I’m perfectly imperfect. Yes I have smoked before, and I have drunk before, I stayed out late nights, I’ve partied and things like that but to know me is to love me. And that doesn’t make you a bad person. I’d give my last, the clothes off my body to someone if they needed it. I was homeless at times with nothing and when I got any penny I gave it to someone else and went hungry. I don’t ever talk about what I do but I do things like this and don’t talk about anything and people still won’t recognize it! Now like I mentioned earlier I gave my mom joint custody with me and I said dropping out of high school was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I LIED AND DIDNT MEAN TO. But the hardest thing I had to do ever in my entire life was give my mother joint custody with me I wasn’t even in the right mental state because of a event that took place not to long before this who ordeal. But with the agreement my mom was granted residential custody of my son as well at the time like I said I couldn’t even process what that was because I really didn’t know what it meant and I just had got very disappointing news. If i really truly knew what residential custody meant and my mother wasn’t so manipulative sounding convincing and I knew then what I knew now I would’ve never given her custody oh and the fact that my mom knew me like a book she knew I was defenseless I didn’t really stand up for myself or really speak on how I felt, I was a pushover and let everone walk over me like a welcome mat. Again I don’t want any pity because I deserve it all I take responsibility. But my mom convinced me I had to give her joint custody and residential custody for my son as authority to take him to doc appointments and etc when I had to handle important things such as school and work. All she needed was my consent/ authorization from me to do these things which she knew. Yes I was young and a fool and I guess that’s why god looks out for me. And yes I made it my responsibility to make sure I went back to school and got my GED because that was my second chance to right my wrongs especially when her now husband told me well yelled at me telling me I was a high school dropout and that I wasn’t never gonna be shit while I was 16 and pregnant with her standing right behind me saying nothing! I wasn’t going to do anything to prove him or anybody else that they were wrong but I did it because I wanted to and I said for my son I’m going to be better he made me realize I needed to do better and stand for something or you’d fall for anything. He made me open my eyes and showed me why god put me on this earth. This is another reason I still go through untreated depression because of mental verbal and physical abuse. I know I have it but it’s because of a lot more than just what I’ve shared, but long story short my mom is the definition of the devil I say that because if you ask my 7 year old son who will be 8 in July if he thinks I’m a bad mom and why or why not he will tell you and he always wants to be with me all kids love being around me as older people. Also if you tell someone rather a stranger or family you love them or you want them to get themselves together so there child can be with them how can you spitefully do things to sabotage that knowing it can kill them and because you have or am doing them a favor especially when you know they don’t care or love nothing else more they love their own child! For example if you had section 8 paperwork come to her house that was your old mailing address but you moved she didn’t so she got your mail opened it waited until the due date to send whatever you had to send back as a start to help you then told you about them, then you tell her you are coming to get it and she says she lost it and when she finds it she’ll let you know how is that help. If that’s not purposely trying to sabotage you idk what is. And that’s not the only things she spitefully done. But because my mom has joint custody with me and residential and I don’t, I even went to court with her I didn’t have documentation proof with me so I was unprepared and didn’t know how to talk to the judge maybe I could’ve done everything better idk how to explain better but I felt alone and in other ways I can’t or don’t know how to put in words. And in ways still I feel like giving up fighting with my mom is draining me. Recently well yesterday I became homeless, I am currently unemployed I’ve had a few jobs that lasted a couple days sometimes a couple months within the last couple years. And I got a charge a misdemeanor and since I’ve got that it’s really been hell trying to get a job. Everytime I think things are going to get better and I’m getting closer to getting my son I get pushed farther from that goal. My mother gives me new ultimatums everytime on what I have to do to get her to sign her rights back over. And she also makes sure she emphasizes we have to go to court and before a judge. And it’s sad because I’ve never been what they call a deadbeat mom but when I needed help I asked for help from people I thought loved and would help me but instead are killing me. I don’t live in the same state either and everytime I had somewhere to stay I can only see my son on her terms or not at all. And only can take him to stay where she can have someone watching me. Anyway I’m to the point I cannot function without my son or at least it feels that way and soon if I can’t get a job and a good one because if not that’ll be a problem to, but if not I mind as well give up and kill myself because I’m tired of being in this world without my son! As a mom I vowed that I’d do whatever to support and protect my son but fighting my mom I won’t ever win because I can’t “prove” this. Meaning because it happened there’s no black and white proof only that I remember everything and this damage is internal. But it’s not just me my older sister too! I was trying to help her and she’s doing a little better but my mother had her put in a mental hospital when we were younger and it fucked her up and it’s nothing wrong with her! My mom had our minds and still has my baby sisters minds fucked all up! It’s like in certain situations we’ll be turning against one another and not speaking talking behind one another’s backs and everything then later we back speaking I instead of teaching us to teach one another right from wrong and too always stick together no matter what. I’m older now so I’m not scared to talk about the truth I’ve said and done a lot to I admit everything! But I don’t wanna kill myself I’ll go check myself into a mental hospital if I have to before I ever self harm myself but spiritually it feels like I am dying slow! I feel like god doesn’t hear me anymore and I don’t know why. All I can say is I love my son! I don’t care if no one else believes me I know he does and if you ask him he’ll tell you if you try to tell him any different he will tell you you’re wrong. I am strongly considering giving up I truly don’t want to but like I said what can I do nothing ever goes right too long and I’m getting tired of when I do talk to my son telling or promising him this and that in high hopes and praying and it goes left everytime. I hate seeing the love of my life in pain or hurt like that I have been hurt like that and other ways all my life especially by people that call themselves my family and I don’t want my son to go through life like that! If anybody sees this message and reads it to the end and can help me I greatly appreciate it. Sincerely Darien’s Mom.

Just moved to murfreesboro. Single father who has 7 yrs factory experience from operator , forklift driver,line lead and material handler. Any suggestions??

I am a full time field technician for a medical company I have been having issues with this company for a while I have 3 young kids and all I ever do is work around the clock and dont have time for there activities. I love what I do in helping people but the pay isn't great and I want a change I have a valid class E license and am looking for work with in a 25 mile radius of wentzville mo I have over 12 years experience in home medical can anyone help me find a job that has good pay and hours that I can at least get to see my kids on the weekend and have time for there sporting activities.

I have a son with special needs ( high functioning Autism). He would really like a job. Would this be an appropriate venue to bring him to, to find a job?

im from san antonio texas , im trying to work to have a better life for my baby . i need a job , im trying to succed in life , you got to do whatever it takes to get where you want to be .