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Originally Posted by kane
I don't want to pile on here, but just have a question. You say that you were both working for a company, but lost the job in March of 2009 and have been struggling to find work since. Ok, that happens. I'm going to assume that when you lost your job you lost your health insurance (but maybe I'm wrong about that). So you are struggling to get by and you saw how tough things were, but still at some point while you were out of work and having these hardships you decided it was a good idea for her to get pregnant? That makes no sense whats so ever to me.
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We did not have health insurance at all, since we were subcontracted and not employees.
She got pregnant in November after she had found work for a company that promised her "great things". It was a promotions company that dealt in water purification systems. They said to her "enjoy your time at home, enjoy your children, enjoy your husband". So she took that last part to heart perhaps a little too much.
It looked like all of our problems had been solved. Unfortunately, the job tanked because the company started refusing to pay her and customers started cancelling orders due to terrible support and rude financial agents. After that, she found a job as a salesperson for another promotional company, but it was costing her more to do the travelling than she was making so she had to resign. We both applied for the Census quite awhile ago, and I've been at the top of the list for the Arecibo office, but they cannot find a position for me...they found one for her though, which is the job she has now. I am going to try to get in with the Bayamon office though. They have a policy which states that two people in the same household cannot work in the same office. If I had been able to work there, this would not even be an issue since between her income from the job and mine from the job, it would be more than enough, and I could simply convince the landlord to hang on a little longer. If I can get in at Bayamon though, that might still be an option.
dyna mo: the $3000 covers 3 months of rent, which is what we owe. And actually, it's not $3000, it's actually $2550...the extra would be like a buffer just in case things don't pan out as well as we're hoping for. Our rent is $850/month.