school help: I am a single mother with no education and no prospects for work. - Help.com

You have to get a job. You need to get out of your mothers life and begin your own. Waiting is just letting this drag on. YOUR letting it drag on. Your first thing should probably be gettin a used car. No matter how old or whatever as long as it runs and can get you to work it’s good enough. School would be good but same thing: transportation. This isn’t something you want to be doing for the rest of your life. You gotta get up, get away from the comp, and begin making each day better for you or your kids. It’s only too late if you convincce yourself that. So don’t.

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I was in your exact situation 17 years ago. I started working as a waitress at two different places. You can make good money waitressing. Utilize anyone who will help with babysitting so you can work and save money. Try to put up with the harrassment at home as long as you can. Things will get better, stay strong and remember you’re doing this for your kids. You can do it!!!

First things first….. TRANSPORTATION. IF there is no bus line near you, you need a junky used car. Who cares if the car is all rust.. it’s the engine you need. Hold onto the child support money, buy a lot of rice and pasta to eat for yourself to save money, for 5 months so you can save money (give the kids the good food). IGNORE your siblings and your mother’s bashing. Just smile and know you have a plan. CALL the Welfare office, WIC program, and GET ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. Sign up for Section 8 housing for the heck of it, and just wait. Once you have the CAR, you need to find a job. Waitress is great, or… clean houses! I did that! Advertise with nice flyers you simply Xerox and place under doormats of nice houses, and on car windshields of NICE cars (at night so people do not see you) and in the grocery store parking lot, or in your own neighborhood. I made good CASH money cleaning houses! You can also BABYSIT for cash. Make flyers and put them all around the neighborhood, under doormats of large homes. After-school care or daycare. Answer an ad for a Nanny! Sign up with a Nanny agency. They do pay well. Maybe you can bring your kids with you. Or get a job at a daycare center (nannies make more, however). You can go to secretarial school to be a computer-trained Admin. Courses normally take 12 - 14 months going part time at night. BUT you’d need help with babysitting your kids to do that. Or you can go to school days, PAID BY GOVERNMENT GRANTS and beg your siblings/mother to babysit your kids the 4 nights week you go to school (work during the daytime, at a Daycare Center) Don’t bother moving out until you first finish school (x-ray technician, medical office assistant, secretary) It could easily take 2 years to get established. First thing is to buy a car, then sign up for school w/ grants and loans, and get a part time night/weekend job waitressing or housecleaning AND WELFARE!!! or WIC.