A lot to catch up on

My feeling on the economy you ask? Well, since getting laid off in March of 2009 1 year after buying our first home and finding out shortly after we were pregnant with our second child life has been challenging to say the least. That fall my husband also ended up unemployed. 6 months pregnant the only job I could find was Part-time making less than half the hourly rate I was earning 8 months earlier and half the hours. The position had no stress and was with a great boss at a great company so it would help with the gap on my resume. I was finishing my MBA and had a 2 year old. When the baby was born I took the bare minimum 6 week leave of absence unpaid. Our 3 month emergency fund had been long gone and bill payments fell behind. Now that the baby was born and I had been in the position for a while I was offered full time work which I happily accepted but the pay was still less then half what I made the year before. Daycare was costing me almost my entire check and my husband out of desperation took a sales job as a door to door insurance salesman and was not getting anywhere. So, it was time for me to look for better pay. Which is how I ended up at a large company also in sales and they only took on high net worth clients so I was spending too much to try and make it and I was already behind. My boss at this job was AWFUL and made me physically sick to go to work everyday. Of course I wasn’t able to hit my hurdles so had to find a more permanent well paying job. Which brings me to where I am today. However, I want it to be permanent but was hired because one of the employees is pregnant and very close to her due date and the other is getting married. They have worked together for more than 5 years and we all know how girls are so they don’t like me. Our boss has counted on them for all these years and I am the newbie so am feeling like a temp. I just want to plant my feet in the ground somewhere. I love the work I do and helping people and solving problems. I’m a mom so naturally I want to be home with my kids but can’t afford to so just want to be treated with respect and make enough money to catch up and pay my bills. We are loosing our home face shut off notices and the the other crap many others are facing. I went to college so I could get a good job and my family would never have to worry about lack of heat, electric, food, and housing. Now my student loan debt is killing me, I make less then I was 2 years ago pay 2x as much for daycare and 3x as much for gas and milk… I can’t even say I live check by check. It’s more like check by 3 check or more. I am part of the 99% and it really sucks… I hope that the next President can find a way to bring more jobs, better pay, and some equality. I just want my old normal life back and not have to worry so much.