I think the biggest issue that I
personally worry about in middle age is what happened to my father, he has an
education but kept losing his job to a younger person with less
experience. This cost the company that
he was working for less money to employ someone with less experience than to
keep my father on the pay roll. I have
put everything in to my basket taking a
huge risk completing my degree at Fordham. Currently right now I am part of the working poor, if I did not live
with my parents I would not be able to afford housing or food for my son and
I. This issue concerns me the most,
while I do not plan on becoming rich with my new career I hope to at least be
able to save some money and not live pay check to pay check.
These
concerns are intensified due to the fact that I am in the sandwich
generation and will continue to care for my parents as the continue to
get older, therefore needing more help from me to get to doctors
appointments. Already I am there for them as they need that driver home
from the surgery center or to go to a doctor's appointment to be the
listening ears and advocate.
My last concern is
my son, with all his overwhelming health needs it is essential that
there is a trust established in case something were to happen to me.
While I would like to think I have an invincible single parenting cloak
that is not the case.
All I know to do is to
keep on trekking through the paces of my current life knowing that in
two years I will be done and I will hopefully obtain that dream job with
better pay.
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