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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 367564" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>When you talk to employers if they ask about gaps i employment history or why you haven't held a job since whenever, tell them that your son had some serious problems and you had to devote yourself to helping him. Tell them that the problems are now past and you need to return to the workforce. Pick whatever problems you feel comfortable naming, and make it sound like it is either totally better OR that you now have help lined up and he is old enough to be able to handle himself while you work. I found that many employers understood this, shockingly enough. I got a liquor store job BECAUSE of it - the man who owned the business said that it gave me the skills to not be manipulated or fooled into selling to minors or otherwise breaking the liquor laws. </p><p></p><p>If you can line up some references and don't mind doing cleaning work, check out cleaning services. If you approach companies that work for residential clients the work is done during the day. If you approach a company that has business clients then you will often work nights. Do NOT forget property management companies. People move out and leave things behind quite often. I worked for a guy who also owned a bunch of rental properties eons ago. He would often have someone working for him for low or free rent. Often he made exceptions for pets, parties, whatever for employees but not for anyone else. If you can get a place looking nice fairly quickly there may even be banks who would be interested because all of the foreclosures. Several of the houses on our street that were foreclosed upon were left with all sorts of stuff inside. Not always junk, either. Three of the families left rooms full of furniture. It was pretty much all charged on credit cards, but the banks still had to get it out of there and clean the places. </p><p></p><p>This might be a way to get into a rental property, esp if you end up in subsidized housing and need to move to a different area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 367564, member: 1233"] When you talk to employers if they ask about gaps i employment history or why you haven't held a job since whenever, tell them that your son had some serious problems and you had to devote yourself to helping him. Tell them that the problems are now past and you need to return to the workforce. Pick whatever problems you feel comfortable naming, and make it sound like it is either totally better OR that you now have help lined up and he is old enough to be able to handle himself while you work. I found that many employers understood this, shockingly enough. I got a liquor store job BECAUSE of it - the man who owned the business said that it gave me the skills to not be manipulated or fooled into selling to minors or otherwise breaking the liquor laws. If you can line up some references and don't mind doing cleaning work, check out cleaning services. If you approach companies that work for residential clients the work is done during the day. If you approach a company that has business clients then you will often work nights. Do NOT forget property management companies. People move out and leave things behind quite often. I worked for a guy who also owned a bunch of rental properties eons ago. He would often have someone working for him for low or free rent. Often he made exceptions for pets, parties, whatever for employees but not for anyone else. If you can get a place looking nice fairly quickly there may even be banks who would be interested because all of the foreclosures. Several of the houses on our street that were foreclosed upon were left with all sorts of stuff inside. Not always junk, either. Three of the families left rooms full of furniture. It was pretty much all charged on credit cards, but the banks still had to get it out of there and clean the places. This might be a way to get into a rental property, esp if you end up in subsidized housing and need to move to a different area. [/QUOTE]
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