I Lost My Job And I'm Feeling Hopeless!

chris is with us in Sioux Falls hi Chris welcome to the Dave Ramsey show thank you Dave how are you better than I deserve how can I help well I could really use some quality advice I'm really really struggling right now and I'm faced with some very very difficult decisions and I'm trying to come to terms with how that might affect how I spend all any time with my kids I have been separated from my marriage for four years divorced about three I have my kids every other week and I just recently went through my second job loss in two years I've been unemployed for the last two months the last time I was unemployed I went through about nine months of unemployment and the funds are really really low but that's a piling up and I just really don't know what to do I've been listening to a lot of your podcasts and the one thing well one of those many great things that I've been hearing but one of the regular things that I hear is you just work work work and I'm not afraid of work I just want to make sure that you know my kids are nine and fourteen I want to make sure that I can have some quality time with them and I don't actually you're going to have to work you're to work to be able to do that right I get that you know and so there's gonna be stairs listen all dads and moms have trade offs we have to produce economically to provide for our family and that means sometimes we miss a recital well and I I certainly understand this in a recital but you know if I'm picking up you know second shifts or third shifts here and there or maybe that's my regular job you know how and my kids are in school how am i spending time with them if I'm household income well I'm not positive on the short term on the short term you figure it out on the long term you change that around I would not prescribe that you work something where you never see your children ever for 10 years but you may have to do that for five months because you're broke and unemployed it may be a very difficult five months but if you wallow around and III can't do anything to create money because I have to have time for my kids you're gonna struggle from now on what were you doing before what kind of job are you were you doing before I was a project manager in the medical industry long term health care industry in making what kind of money the one you just got fired from oh the last one that I just got fired from was was not that was in was in a technology field I was making between 50 and 55 doing what and technology a lot of electronic data interchange data passing between insurance companies and health care providers okay all right Kent can you take those that was not my industry okay all right but your industry's project managing yeah yeah okay now why did you lose this job it was part of a large corporate layoff oh it laid off about 10-15 percent of their staff well one thing you can do is come up with a self-employed idea where you take some of your project management skills or your tech skills and you start doing those as an outsource for small business and then you can control your time as you work when you want to work and when you know when the customer needs you but you're going to work when you want to work you can at least you can you know you're not locked into a set schedule that way but you desperately need to do something to create income around there on a regular basis anything [Music]

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018