I am 55 years old and have been actively looking for a job for 3 years. I find myself is a very difficult situation. I am a single parent still raising my granddaughter who is 11 and my 20 year old daughter in college. Being low income (very low I work one day a week as a bookkeeper) has an advantage when it comes to my daughter's education, she more than qualifies for a grant and my granddaughter has state health insurance which is the best. The company I where I worked for 13 years like so many went out of business and being over 50 makes the competitions very stiff. On an average I send out 10 resumes per week and apply personally for 3 to 5 jobs per week. Generally speaking I am over qualified for the job at hand. My second problem in my job search is that I have to make money enough to take over the programs that we qualify as a low income family.
Last fall I decided I would check to see if I qualified for a grant to go back to school, I am eligable for a student loan. Now I'm faced with what happens if I go to school and still can't get a job how do I pay the loan back.
At a younger age I would just go for it, now I'm not sure how to approach it. I do have to make a living and not making a living certainly doesn't do anything for the self esteem. So to date I am still filling out applications, sending resumes and praying alot.
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