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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 492068" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Kathy I think one of the most depressing and let down feelings is when our difficult child's get sober but we realize they still have addictive behaviors. As much as they told us that would happen I expected, wanted so badly for that not to be true. It does take a long time walking the walk and talking the talk until the behaviors start to change. It's one of the reasons coming back home was just not an option for gdfg. My dad doesn't understand that. He thinks she is sober so we should let her come back home.</p><p></p><p>Many of the girls from the sober house get jobs at grocery stores, diners, fast food places, telemarketing. Let's face it, their resumes doesn't look the best. They need to build up a resume and get some work experience behind them. A job is a job, especially in this economy. When it was time for difficult child to look fro a job at the sober house I told her to make a list of all theplaces she wanted to go and I would pick her up and take her. First of all she had no car at that point but more imporatnt I could make sure that's what she was doing. I used my gps and started going to all the places in order of distance. She had made a resume and had it printed at the library and she left a resume at each place, even if they weren't hiring. She got three job offers out of that one day searching. One place told her they had no openings and the next day she got a call from them. Going in person and looking presentable is so much more successful than calling on the phone or looking in the paper. Would she let you do that with her? </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 492068, member: 59"] Kathy I think one of the most depressing and let down feelings is when our difficult child's get sober but we realize they still have addictive behaviors. As much as they told us that would happen I expected, wanted so badly for that not to be true. It does take a long time walking the walk and talking the talk until the behaviors start to change. It's one of the reasons coming back home was just not an option for gdfg. My dad doesn't understand that. He thinks she is sober so we should let her come back home. Many of the girls from the sober house get jobs at grocery stores, diners, fast food places, telemarketing. Let's face it, their resumes doesn't look the best. They need to build up a resume and get some work experience behind them. A job is a job, especially in this economy. When it was time for difficult child to look fro a job at the sober house I told her to make a list of all theplaces she wanted to go and I would pick her up and take her. First of all she had no car at that point but more imporatnt I could make sure that's what she was doing. I used my gps and started going to all the places in order of distance. She had made a resume and had it printed at the library and she left a resume at each place, even if they weren't hiring. She got three job offers out of that one day searching. One place told her they had no openings and the next day she got a call from them. Going in person and looking presentable is so much more successful than calling on the phone or looking in the paper. Would she let you do that with her? Nancy [/QUOTE]
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