I need a job...I feel so lost!
alright.
I have to be comepltely honest with mysself here.
I need a job.
I don't want to work. I was so hellbent on being home with the boy..but I have no skills people would pay money for(at least not enough to live)so working from home doesn't feel like an option.
I don't live in the city I am trying to get a job in, and i don't drive. I am going insane having to rely on my parents for everything again. Including transportation. Ugh. I am having a really hard time finding anyone willing to rent out an apartment to someone who doesn't have a job yet. But how am I supposed to get to work? I don't really want to just start a job here then quit a few weeks later once I find us a home.
I need resume help.
I can't find my old one ANYWHERE! and with it has gone all the dates where I worked places and all the info of those places. So I need to start from scratch completely.
I am 22. I have no "career path" and no post-secondary education yet. Hell, i still haven't decided what I want to go to school for yet. I have hopped around from retail job to retail job since I started working as a teenager, with a few brief stints at halfdecent offices.
I would really like to work only part time..I doubt thats a possibility though, as I don't really have the experience to get into a higher paying place that would give me enough money to pay rent and provide for my son and I while only working part time.
BD doesn't help at all with child support, so thats not even a little bit of help...
and I also haven't worked for the last two years while I've been home with my little one...although for some reason, being a mother is not qualifcation enough to do Daycare work.
I am so frustrated. Can anyone give me any advice at all? I don't even know where to start!
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and the worst is when i take something i like to do and turn it into something that makes money, because then i just hate that.
that last question edited out.... it's early and i misread your thing about quitting.
you're 22? no fucking career path necessary. just get a resume together with all the software that you're adept at -- including those that you play with and social networking -- and send it out with cover letters that state your availability. a 22 year old should have no problem getting a job. resumes don't really need to include dates. in fact, it's useless information that most people skip over. if you write up something that says what you did and where and what you liked about it, you'll be fine. when you are on a path, then people will be looking for a progression in your work history, but at 22 no one expects anything of you.
i'm a pro at getting jobs and interviewing well. keeping jobs is my weakness, but i can totally get them.
apply to all the temp places local to you, and be open and willing about doing different types of assignments. This makes it more likely you'll get recommended for/sent to a decent-paying temp-to-perm job. If you're not snotty about what kind of work to do, off the rip I'd suggest going to a daily temporary place because you get paid the same day you work and you only commit for that day. So say one week you want tues, thus, and fri off, you can do that. Then the next week you want tuesday off, you can that, without losing your job with the temp agency. Long-term temp places pay a lot better though, so if you can commit to a job from week to week go that route.
Also! consider working 3rd shift (nights like 10pm-6am, 11pm-7am, etc) because then you won't have to pay a sitter (I'm sure your folks will watch bear for free since he's sleeping all night now) and you'll still get some daytime hours with him every day.
Go to college! No seriously. I was in a very similar position at 19, and I ran the numbers mone and time wise, and it was way better to go to school full-time. I was able to go to school full-time and work a part time job or two. It was hard, kinda crazy, but it worked for me. I personally don't think what your degree is in really matters, I think employers just want to see that you've persisted through it. I did mine in business administration, becuase it was interesting enough and the pay looked decent after I finished. If you're motivated in that direction, school is a good option. Cutting class to take care of a sick kid is way easier than cutting work. I miss my school days flexibility. If you don't want to go to school, then temping is a good way to get some contacts and get back in the game.
I'm told that it's crazy to be a single mom to a kid with special needs and complete a bachelor's degree. It kind of felt like getting burned alive. But the degree has opened a lot of doors for me. I wish I had taken things more slowly so that I could enjoy school and my son more. Lots of folks do really well and are quite happy without more school. At my current job, two of my coworkers don't have bachelor's degrees, and they make the same or more than me. They also don't have to pay back massive student loans.( I work in software product support, pays well and they are flexible.) Good luck with whatever you end up doing. 
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