I think you are right. Both of my grandmothers worked as needed on the farm, my mom went back to work when we were all in school.
We have been hammered over the years with medical issues. Two kids with chronic conditions and the medications and office visits add up. Big time. Now another one has been diagnosed with an extremely painful and severe skin issue: all my herbs and essential oil made it worse. The prescription alone is $572/month plus monthly dermatology visits and blood tests. Every penny I earn won’t quite cover his costs. I miss having my home be the focus of my time everyday but it’s no longer an option. Thankfully we can have our homeschool work done and supper in the crockpot before I leave for work. Tonight should be a profitable night waiting tables. It will be busy and I am praying that God will see my middle aged self through this job that is a young person’s game ;-).
I wish you the best! Waitressing is a tough gig, but it offers more variable hours and usually a higher per-hour take than office work. I’ll pray you get a giant New Years tip from someone!
We’ve had some medical issues with one of our teenagers in the last few months, and we’ll have to cut back some other things to cover our new insurance deductible, starting tomorrow. “Can we get our nails done today?” she asked. “Sorry, the money for getting nails done went for your medical bills.”