I need a self-employment strategy.
As you should already well-know, I'm the single parent of a handicapped child. Along with the pressures of single motherhood, stresses of working for a Fortune 5, and general life pressures, I have the added stress of dealing with his disabilities. Add to that my living in a soon-to-be-gentrified-still-impoverished area, and the choices for daycare/after-school care facilities for him, and my stress-levels reach critical mass.
My son's tired-ghetto-a$$ school closes at least twice a month. Boiler issues, weather conditions,a chemical spill 30 miles away, lack of adequate numbers of students, hell, even an eclipse - it takes little reason for them to close, leaving me scrambling to find a backup to the backup plan. My sitters aren't returning my calls, my neighbors aren't reliable. Frustration doesn't begin to cover it. Friends suggest considering a teaching career, or freelance consulting work - but the transition has its pitfalls. My son requires health insurance, so I've been incredibly wary of transitioning.
But my normal stress level (from my overfull-plate) is twice as high as a normal person. Wrenches in my plans, like the ghetto-daycare-center closing every other week, tend to take it high enough to bust forehead veins and send me straight to the hospital. My fibroids are kickin' a hole in my back, legs & gut that even Tylenol-Pamprin cocktails barely knocks back, the bloodloss is giving my anemic-a$$ migraines and my hormones are all over the map. Something has to give, and I'm trying to ensure that it's not my sanity.
I need help, or at least a clue. And not the "hm...maybe you should meditate" kind of help either.
Has anyone created their own self-employment strategy? Have you leveraged your skills to create a situation conducive to parenting/living? Any suggestions? Tips? Viable advice? (I'm, er - middle income k-solo. If I leave the Fortune 5 - I need to stay that way.)
Does anyone have a rich, single African-American male friend looking for a ready-made family?
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