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I need some help/advice *long*
MH and I have a baby on the way (mid June, I'll be induced June 13th if he's not here already). The week I found out I was pregnant, I found out the agency I worked for f/t was closing due to grants ending and being unable to secure more funding. Okay, no biggie - I figured I'd find something pretty quickly, and I also had a p/t job. Between my p/t salary (15 hours per week) and collecting unemployment, things have been okay. I've been looking for f/t work, and in the economy ... I haven't been able to find anything. Now I'm looking for after the baby is here.
Last night I found out that my p/t job is no longer happening. I was on a contract, ending May 26th, but there had been no talk of it not being renewed. There WAS discussion that my pay would be brought down a little bit because of the financial issues that the company was facing, and I was okay with that. Last night I was told that if I wanted the job, it was mine, but I would be given a $2,000 stipend to continue to work 15 hours a week for 9 mths - a $14,000 pay cut. That $2,000 wouldn't even cover all my gas to get back and forth for 9 months.
I can't do anything until the baby is here as far as actively working. I'm still looking for work, will go on interviews, etc. I contacted my previous p/t position and found out they're still looking to replace me, and I asked if I could re-apply for my old job. It'd be much less money than what I had been earning ... but it'd be something. (I left there bc of the money, the place I just found out I had no job at was paying me $5 more an hour.)
MH is working f/t right now, working nights. He's already said he would get another job if he needed to after the baby is here. I have gestational diabetes, and I'm waiting for my OB to fill out my short term disability forms to get $ for that (I'm at 5 dr appts a week, so there is def going to impede me working, which is all my insurance company requires -) and I'll get 6-8 weeks of short term disability after the baby is born (depending on how he is delivered.) Unemployment will stop after the baby is born for 6 weeks, and kick back up (with more $ because of the extra person in the home).
I've looked online daily...I'm going to send my resume/cover letter out to everywhere I can think of that I have networked with in the past. Is there something I'm not thinking of that I CAN or SHOULD be doing at this point?