I am glad 2016 is over now what do I do with 2017? My baby was born 2 weeks and 2 days ago. She was an unexpected/surprise pregnancy. I live with her father and we've been together 7 years with a time in 2014 when I moved out for about a year. In Jan 2016 he bought his first house and I moved back in. By March I was pregnant and he believes or believed I got knocked up on purpose. Spoiler, I did not. I had just started on going back to school the previous fall. I wanted to change careers from retail to art teacher. Im 31 and been in retail so long I started receiving promotions and I was starting to transition into manager mode. Realizing how much I hated this, I joined community college. Now I have student loans and I'm in this too deep to just quit. I already had to drop a class over summer and over fall! Because with my full time job and being pregnant it was hard on me. Now I'm sitting here thinking classes start in 2 weeks. I'm enrolled for 2 classes, one online, the other is one day a week. I have no childcare plan. I have no one except maybe one person I could ask to babysit. I'm supposed to go back to work at the start of February. So that's my triple F. I'm effed if I quit school, loans to pay back with zero payoff and no new career. I'm effed if I quit work because we need the money and I'm supposed to be helping pay the effing mortgage. I'm effed no matter what I do because childcare costs will eat up any money I might make. Going to part time at work means also a pay cut. Managers are required to work 40 hours. My position is currently a training position which means if they decide to award me this position I'm required to work 44 hours a week on salary which obviously means 50+ hours a week. Obviously this means there's no way I can accept this position so I'm effed. I can't quit school, I'm effed. I can't stay home with my baby, I'm effed. I can't not stay home with her either, I'm effed. What the hell should I do? I made a promise to help pay the mortgage and now we have a baby. I wish I could say I have family but I don't have family in the state. For those of you that do, I hope you know how fortunate you are. 😢