Ever change states?

Thanks for your story! It feels good to know I'm not the only one who thinks AL is a no win state. It's beautiful but there's just no way to survive barely. All my work experience is in administrative assistant/clerical and my mom's is receptionist/hr assistant. There have been a few more lately but they all want associate degrees and masters... to answer a phone. I mean really, if I had my bachlors wtf would I be doing answering someone's phone for $8 an hour? Common sense people! Even for like executive admin asst, no more than $10/hr lately if you have a billion degrees. That same job used to be no less then $17/hr just a few years ago in this same city w/out all the degrees. I've sent out another round of resumes and will be following up on Tuesday and Monday morning we're going to the career center. We just want to save up enough to move out of the state. Thanks again!

That is the truth of it! That's the same thing we faced. There were simply no good jobs that they were willing to pay for. We moved here, cause my spouse could get up to ten dollars more per hour for doing the same job that he was slaving over there. He worked seven days a week and often had to pull double shifts cause they were literally paying minimum wage for a job that was well worth four times that much. It's just an economically depressed environment and they are misuing the talent and getting it cheap. I don't blame you for wanting to get out. Just please don't wait until the money runs out. We had our chance and we ran! I have never regreted it for one minute! Honestly, I would have left if I didn't have a dime cause there was nothing worth staying for and I couldn't have afforded to raise a child there. Ironically, I lived in that state for ten years, all the time wanting a child and not being able to have one. Less than four months after moving out of that state, I conceived my child. Something tells me that was NO coincidence. That place was bad luck for me and my body from the second I stepped on the soil! I kid you not.

I agree, it can be a bad luck place! I've been the same way since we got here, nothing but bad health and bad luck. One thing right after the next to no end. Really ugly have happened to us here and I'm looking forward to leaving all of those things behind and the memories of them. I don't know why people are so cheap here? AL is one of the poorest states but it holds a high number of millionaires. Craziness! We called the community action and they said they don't help you unless you're making 3-4 times the ammount of your rent. Umm... then there wouldn't be a problem now would there?

Maybe a job will come open first. It does not sound very welcoming.