I have to share this with someone!!!!!

But no one close to me knows the situation, it’s been my secret. I figure this is a safe place to share it!!

So for the past year, I’ve worked a job that turned into a job I hated, it was like being in high school, I was always degraded, there was so much drama, but it was a good job as far as benefits and pay (for what I was doing).

At the end of April, I had had it!!! I snapped and I quit! I was already in the process of interviewing for another job but it was a very slow process. I lied to my family and told them I had got the job so I quit my other job until I would start my new one. I got a decent severance package but I quit right before rent + car note were due so most of the money went to that. We’re now in May, more bills are coming, and I’m down to my last $400, I’ve been doing door dash but that doesn’t sustain life in the Bay Area. Still I had told no one, not my boyfriend, not my parents, not my best friend. The days were passing with no new job leads, no follow up from the prospective job. I told everyone my start date was May 13th, I’ve had terrible anxiety thinking about how I’m going to pull off faking going to work.

Well today, I decided to de-stress a bit and do not a damn thing. Not door dash, not clean, not go to the gym. I lay in bed and put on my favorite show - and as I’m laying there, my phone rings; ITS THE CALL I HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR. The place that I had interviewed with!!!!

I cautiously answer, it’s taken a month total for them to get back to me so I thought it was to turn me down.

The woman says “We’d like to offer you the job, go over some benefits we offer, and discuss your pay”

I burst into tears, I’m actually crying as I’m typing this! I got the job you guys, I got this incredible job that will secure mine and my sons future (I’m a single mom to a 4yr old). I’ll be making really good money, with a job that’s literally ten minutes away from my house, and it’ll be a much better work environment. My heart feels so full right now.

I hate that I’ve had to lie to the people I love the most, but this was so embarrassing for me; being the jobless single mom. I’m just going to tell them my start date got pushed back (since I have a real start date now of May 28th). I already told my boyfriend and he said he’s going to help me cover the bills until I get my first check. Someday, I will come clean about this story and it may just give us all a good laugh.

Life gets crazy at times, but there’s always better days ahead. 🙏🏼