Any help to get us out of financial hell? How can hubby make money consistently if he goes back to school?
May 14, 2010 by bebo
Filed under Boom mower
I’m married to a man who is deeply in love with me and our children. Though we have lots of love, our finances are terrible. My husband is one of those men who will do anything legal to suport his family so that I can stay home with our babies (2yr old and baby #2 due any day now). Yet DH has lost job after job where he tries so hard to do his best. He would like to go back to school, but he can’t because we have bills (mortgage, car note, etc) ANd this is what really gets me..ALL of our bills come to less than 2k per month. That’s all, an yet we struggle so much trying to make ends meet. We are behind on our mortgage and have $5 in our checking and are down to $170 per wk from UPS now that unemployment has ran out and his lawn biz has ran its course. When DH lost his job this year, he put the lawn mower in our car and started cutting yards going door-to-door. It became a booming biz, but then there was no rain and so grass just wasn’t growing so biz slowed down to a halt while he still works pt at UPS for free benefits. He’s been out knocking doors but only to get no’s. He’s been tryin to get anotha pt job to make ends meet, but to no avail. He’s delvered phone books, cleaned up, call centers, you name it. But it seems he can’t keep a job that will pay our bills ontime. I was going back to wrk but got preg with our 2nd child due any day now. I want to help but I’m about to have a baby. We’re a very close knit family but we are very frustrated financially as we don’t know what else to do to make CONSISTENT money. We tried starting a biz, but we need money to continue it tho we have all of the equipment (screen printing). Is there anyway dh can get money to support our family while going to school (he’s an artst)? UPS will pay for it but we need money coming in along with UPS if he goes back to school! We have dreams we want to persue like our biz and artistic talents but it seems impossible to do that with little ones. I will start a pt online job in about 6 months from now but we need money yesterday! Any ideas about dh gettin paid while in school, our biz we tried to start in screen printing or something consistent, woud be a great HELP!!!
Just for the record, I’m not stting bk just being served. I’m a full time Mom in a hi risk pregnancy. It was advised that I do not wrk during this pregnancy. When I got preg, my DH had a good job he was doin well at, but he was fired this year when things got slow for not meetin quota. He went out cuttin yards when everywhere he applied would not call him bk (he had to do sumthin). The thing is job security. That would be nice while our babies are growin up. We dont mind puttin things on hold while we raise a family, but UPS is a stable job since he’s in the union, he just needs something else to go along with it to make ends meet. We have full free benefits at UPS for the entire family we’re not giving that up, we just need 1 more job to meet 2k per mo NOW. I can wrk an make more money wrking pt but i go 2wrk in 6 mos after baby born, not before. so im jus askin for advice on sumthin 2 do now. So dont judge, we didnt wak up 1da thinkin he’d no longer have a job while im preg.
I think your husband is trying his best ,all along to get a job,i wish you could be helping him even if you were pregnant that is before you become so tired en if you knew u could have waited to have another baby en help you settle bills then later u have a 2nd child,i know you husband is really hardworking but u cant just sit en be served everything help him,.yeah when u deliver nothing u can do now,go to help centres u get help
He can put off school and starting your own business until your children are old enough to be in school themselves.
That way you are free to work, and manage a business, while he works and goes to school.
Right now, with a child and another one on the way, he needs to get a consistent job with benefits that will pay for your bills. You also should talk to a financial counselor. $2,000 a month in bills is nothing, if you can’t afford that, then you are doing something wrong.
Your husband and/or you (eventually) need to get real jobs. Seasonal work sucks. If your husband wants to mow lawns maybe he should go into the landscaping business. Companies that own buildings or condominiums, etc… hire people to mow their lawns. You can get contracts. They pay every month no matter what. Look in the government job banks, news papers, etc… Apply to enough jobs and you will eventually find one. Leaf raking season is also coming up. Maybe a temperary paper route to help out.
Also christmas is coming so ups should pick upwith all the extra packages. With ups it is hard to get full time work.