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She quit her job. My boyfriend's cousin, the 20 year-old single mom. She quit her job. She started this job in April. She almost blew off this job two days into it when she was sent home for not having the right shoes. Rather than let her ruin another job possibility by her excuses and laziness, I gave her the money to buy the right shoes so she wouldn't have to miss work. This was all about a month ago. And this weekend, she quit her job.
Just one more irresponsible act in a series of bad choices she has made since the day she found out she was pregnant. She thinks she had a good reason for quitting. In her mind, she probably thinks she had no other choice. Her job was 3rd shift. From her reports, it sounded like she might have been doing well at this job. But that all ended on the night she left work early because she wasn't feeling well. She returned to her apartment to find that her pot-head boyfriend had left the not yet 2 year-old home alone. The girl had apparently been home alone for about two hours. She then found out this was not the first time he had left the girl alone.
I had misgivings about her trusting this boy to watch her child all night. But I knew she wouldn't put any effort into finding any alternative child care arrangements. Effort is just not her thing. To her credit, when she realized the pot-head was leaving her daughter home alone, she knew she could not continue to rely on him. But she didn't put any effort into finding a solution, like finding a new child care provider or even getting a family member to step in as a babysitter for a few days. (For the record, I would have taken care of the girl for a week.) She didn't ask her case worker for any help. Instead, she quit her job, the best-paying job she's ever had. And, no, she didn't dump the boyfriend. She's just insisting that he has to pay all the bills himself. Sounds like a stellar plan to me.
Well, I quit, too. Why should I care more about her life than she does? I am done trying to help her, trying to support her and point her in the right directions. I am done trying to get through to her.
But I can't be done. Because there's a little girl involved. Somebody has got to get through.
