I feel so helpless. I have a good friend of mine who lives in Ohio who is really struggling. She has been aggressively looking for work for a few months and is now in a position where she can’t even turn her water on, and both her kids have Covid. She’s at a point where I think she might actually just give up on life and I’m really concerned about her because she does not have resources. What can I do? I am also unemployed so there’s not much I can do personally for her 🥺

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I don’t mean this to sound insensitive at all but I’m genuinely wondering how you were working at PwC and are now living in your car? What happened?

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Yeah it’s because I got laid off and so I’ve had a lot of major changes in my life including my living situation

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Set up a gofundme? If you post here I will donate.

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This is a great idea if she’s comfortable with it

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I think it’s really great that you’re thinking about your friend especially during these tough times. I think just being there for someone can mean a lot and taking the time to listen. Do you live close to her by any chance? I think going to see her or even offering to watch her kids could be helpful. Seems like she needs a break for herself. It’s a tough situation and truly wishing the best for both of you

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Thank you so much no unfortunately she lives about five states away so there’s not much I can do at least from my location stats. She definitely needs a break I don’t know how she still going

OP, are you looking for a new job also? You mentioned you got laid off and are living in your car, so I get that it might be tough - but I would think with PWC on your resume, you might be able to get some interviews in this hot market. It sounds like your friend is most in need of financial support and that seems like one way to support her since she is opposed to social services? I know people sometimes are too proud to ask for help, but it seems like it’s getting to a point of safety for her children… without water, it’s very hard to keep things clean especially if they both have covid. Maybe you can talk some sense into her to take advantage of social programs even though it sounds like she is resistant - what’s driving her resistance? Does she understand the implications if she does not take advantage of those resources? There is a real risk if their water is off long enough, CPS could take her kids away for neglect.

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Yes I have been actively looking ever since I found out about my layoff notice. I had a higher hope because I do have PWC on my résumé which I thought was a really strong leverage but apparently not because I have no offers which is been very frustrating. I’m now looking at possibly being a waitress or something because literally nothing is working. And I think I’m just going to give up. Right now I’m not going to be able to get a hold of her because now she doesn’t have the resources of Internet connection to be able to communicate so all I can really do at this point is pray that she’s OK

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Would you feel comfortable to ask her to move in with you until she finds a job?

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yea except i live in my car

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This is when the most helpful thing you can do is to call social services and get her hooked up with a social worker to help her navigate housing, childcare, health insurance (Medicaid), food banks, etc. It doesn’t sound like you’re in a position to help financially or physically, but you can make phone calls on her behalf, right?

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Great question, she told me she’s divorced so I’m not really sure where the dad has been or what that story is. I’m not sure if she would disown me as a friend if I got social services involved. All I know is that her situation is pretty bad to the point where she’s literally eating food from the food pantry, not driving her car because she doesn’t have the money to put gas in it, her electric is off because she can’t pay the bills so she walks over to her neighbors house and uses the Internet connection from her garage. I mean like it’s pretty extreme, and the only way that she is surviving right now is because she is barely getting by with minimal heat and food from the food pantry. I feel like there’s not much I can do aside from just help her try to get a job because that’s what I’m good at, but even my efforts there so far haven’t been able to help her which is also frustrating

Maybe people on this app, including myself can help you by refering you and your friend for the roles you guys are interested in, reviewing your resume, give feedback etc?!

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That would be highly appreciated! I will take any help that I can get, she doesn’t have a bachelors degree but she does have administrative experience and she’s trying to go for executive assistant positions but has been having a really hard time

Perhaps ask her how you can help her since she got offended by the social services call. She may have an idea of what kind of help she’s willing to accept.

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I thought about doing a go fund me but I wouldn’t want to expose her and don’t know how I would do it confidentially I guess. But thank you so much for offering to the person who offered that is very generous💖

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