After being laid-off from my job in January 2009, my young children and I have "relocated" 3 times while I looked for work, moving from relative to relative. We went from a typical middle-class American existence - I was a hardworking, well-educated executive with a long stable career, a beautiful home, excellent credit, great schools, beloved pets, with wonderful friends and neighbors, and earning well over $100k a year (and even had a million dollar life insurance policy!)
I am now broke, my savings almost completely depleted and I now share a tiny spare room with my 2 kids. I am on the cusp of being a complete financial burden to my relatives ... and I wake up in the middle of the night, every night, in a cold sweat, so ashamed that I wasn't able to prevent this from happening and terrifed at the prospect of the inevitable poverty and hardships my kids are about to face.
Posted by Anonymous who is out of options on Nov 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM
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First of all, social assistance. Find a job that pays for bills and food, wait for your income tax, use it to make an outsource business that will provide you with capital for a bigger business in the USA. Investments in Mexico are good and closer than other third world countries, such as clean water supplies (about $6k investment) or small business financing (low as 3k total). Hope it helps.
Lower your standards and get a job in the meantime that puts a little money in your pocket and keeps you from losing your dignity.