This whole thing is completely absurd!! I'm not sure why I'm so surprised that they can't get jobs, (I never thought that there was alot of job opportunity on mars before I moved here, I don't know why that would have changed in the past 3 months.) but common, this stinks!!! The way things are going we'll be stuck in this dump of a house forever, or worse kicked out because we can't pay our stupid rent, and living on the streets!! (Mustard bread might become a real treat, and I HATE mustard!!) Life was so much simpler when Zion, Jariah and I all had jobs back in Ohio... Only 635 days left!!!!!
*****UPDATE*****
Zion DID get the job!!!!! It's some sort of administrative position and he starts tomorrow!! Now maybe we can finally get out of this house!! Woohoo!!!!
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YIPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
If Zion can actually get a job, then anybody can get one, including you and Jariah.
I used to manage the Brown Bag Burger in Tucson Mall, go drop my name and see if they are hiring. They employed Danny Sam Hurold and Gabriel and me, so they will take any numbskull they can get.
El con mall
I can't get a job right now, because Becca is scared to stay in the hovel with just her and Brandon. I don't blame her, I wouldn't want to stay here by myself either. Plus, I wouldn't want to leave here by myself either, it doesn't feel safe at all.
The fact that the chain link fence surrounding our house is 6 feet tall makes leaving or staying rather intimidating. (The fact that we have to have a 6 foot tall chain link fence isn't exactly a comfort, either.)
If/When we move into a less scary neighborhood, I might go get a job of some sort. I haven't made up my mind about that yet. If I get a real job outside the home, it will make it harder for me to just leave for a few weeks at a time when I want to go visit my family, so I might just do something home-based like selling Creative Memories, Longaberger, or one of the other companies like that. Those are way more flexible than regular 9-5 jobs.
Jeshanah,
I don't think that having to babysit your sister-in-law is a good enough reason not to get a J-O-B.
Why can't Jariah keep her company during the day and work the night shift somewhere? I doubt Becca is so phobic that you can't leave her alone for eight hours.
Maybe if you left the hovel to go out and work you'd be happier or at least occupied. You must not hate the hovel that much.
The fact that the fence is six foot tall means nothing. I've lived in much worse places than the place you are living in now. I lived in a place less than half a block away that was much worse, so I'm not buying the whole "I'm scared to leave the hovel argument."
You aren't going to school and you don't have kids so you should be out working. No wonder you have so much time to sit around feeling sorry for yourself.
They have Holiday Inns in Tucson you know.
Danny's wife has a job answering the phone at home. Why don't you ask her about that?
Sympathy fading...
Shan
Are there any jobs with the Christian school there at the church? There could be jobs you and Becca could do right there, take little ones to recess, monitor study hall. tutoring, French lessons,janitorial?
I wouldn't leave her and the baby alone there either. It is not safe.
Israel,
The main reason she agreed to move to Tucson is that she would LIKE to have kids.
Zion
Sorry about bringing up the past. You are right, you have grown up a lot since that time. Congrats on the new job! I hope it is wonderful and everything starts working out better.
What is wrong with working and making a little money before you have kids?
So that when you have them, you have enough money to pay for their shots and diapers and stuff.
You guys are way overreacting on the safety issue. If Becca gets attacked by Ninjas or something in the middle of the day, is Jeshanah gonna fight them off?
Puh-leze...
I lived there for over a year and nothing happened to me. Nothing happened to Grandma and Grandpa either and they lived there for years.
Ask Brother Green if he's got work available. He owns a construction company and stuff.
Jariah should ask Bro. Isaac too. Between the two churches in town someone should have some job leads don't you think?
Zion has always wanted to be the breadwinner and be able to completely support a family. He has said he didn't really want his wife to work. I have every confidence that he will be able to do that. This may be exactly the break he's been waiting for. Jeshanah has worked hard and steadily since she was about fourteen. She was hoping to start a family soon. I am very proud of her and think she has shown responsibility in waiting untill Zion has a better job.
The place feels very unsafe to our whole family.
Jariah will have a job again very soon. He has never had any touble finding work before and is a very hard worker.
Jariah has managed a couple McDonald's as well as working at Lowe's and construction work since he was 14. If he is just going to do those things again, he may as well come home. Becca has never been scared in the neighborhoods she's lived in around here.
Shan
If I were you I'd go rent a small apartment in a decent neighborhood and then go get a job at Holiday Inn or something just for a little while longer. Jariah WILL get something again soon and with three of you working you could get off Castro right away and Becca and Brandon would be fine.
We are not a bunch of lazy wimps, whatever some people may think. I have been on my own at home for four years without being scared.This neighborhood, however, is very rough in my opinion. And my husband has never had any problems getting jobs before. He has only been without a job for two weeks, I don't see what's the big deal. He is looking and I have no doubt he will get one soon, but he doesn't really want to go back to work in a McDonald's or a Lowe's...if he wanted to do that we would have stayed in Ohio.
Zion
Is it a pretty good job that you are starting? Is the pay as good as the last one? Are there benefits? Possibilities of promotion? They didn't mention the word temporary, right?
I'm not questioning her right to make whatever choices she wants to make.
However all these choices come with real-world consequences.
Not working and not saving money now may mean having to work later when she has rug rats crawling all over her. Maybe she should talk to Joanna if she wants to see how much fun that is.
It may mean not being able to afford to live in the greatest of areas for a long time. It may mean a lot of Gummint cheese and unsafe hovels.
It may mean not being able to have kids right away and not being able to have as many kids.
Who knows?
But if I was in her shoes, and I was truly that concerned about getting out of there, I'd be doing whatever I could to make that happen. But that's just me.
I'm not calling anybody lazy or wimpy.
You guys do whatever you want.
I have lived in bad neighborhoods where police officers have been machine-gunned to death across the street while I slept. I've been robbed at gunpoint and accosted by AIDS infested beggers at evry corner.
Castro Street is not that kind of place. If it was I'd tell Jeshanah to install razorwire and go buy a shotgun so that she can protect herself and Becca.
Zion
Great! I hope you love it. I am sure you will do really well. It is where your dad worked, right? I know you'll find that pretty cool. This is probably just what you moved out there for, Zion. I am expecting good things for you.
Israel
That is why you have a different perspective on the neighborhood than we do. We have lived on rural backroads and in sleepy little towns where everyone knows everyone else since birth.
Were you a little scared in those places you told us about?
That is how Castro seems to us.
While getting robbed at gunpoint and having police officers mowed down while you sleep are certainly interesting incidents to talk about, I hope Zion, Jeshanah,Jariah, Becca and Brandon never have those experiences.
If people want to live their lives in fear, that's their business. I'd personally be more scared in some creepy rural town with a bunch of mustard sandwich eating Okies.
I'm just saying, just because a fat guy sits in a recliner across the street, doesn't mean anyone is in mortal danger.
And tell Toto we're not in Kansas anymore.
ACTUALLY, I HAVE NEVER HAD A STINKIN' MUSTARD SANDWICH, THAT WAS YOUR 15 YEAR OLD LITTLE BROTHER RIGHT AFTER HIS DAD DIED AND PEOPLE STOPPED CARING THAT HE ATE OR NOT!!!! MY FAMILY HAD TO SEND HIM $$ TO BUY MILK AND OTHER FOOD BECAUSE YOU ALL FORGOT ABOUT HIM!! MAYBE THAT'S A REASON I DON'T LIKE THIS STUPID HOUSE!!!
To tell you the truth, I wasn't really scared in those bad neighborhoods.
I was prepared to defend myself and I used common sense, but scared? Not really.
When the guy robbed me at gunpoint, I was ready, I had five bucks in my wallet and sixty bucks in my sock. I calmly handed him his five bucks and he went off to get some crack or whatever.
People rarely get killed or hurt randomly even in the worst neighborhoods. And even in the safest ones, when your time comes, your time comes. Then you go to heaven and have a jolly ol' time.
So why worry?
Look, he may have had a mustard sandwich once or twice, but I doubt he was ever in danger of starving.
He came to my house in San Jose and ate an entire jar of peanut butter in one day. He'd eat anything.
The kid is resilient.
If he really needed money, he could have called me in California.
Besides mustard is much better than ketchup. (Wait, didn't we have this argument already?)
And what does it have to do with the Castro house, is it mustard colored or something?
I was robbed in beatiful Rio Piedras Puerto Rico.
An entire jar of peanut butter. A big one. No bread or nothing, just peanut butter.
Or maybe you wouldn't have eaten everything in sight when there was enough if food was always plentiful for you.
Hey, one time I stayed at my aunt Irma's house for a month and she gave me ham sandwiches for lunch every day.
Someone had given her this huge holiday ham and she was determined to put it to good use. And I didn't get nice thin slices of ham, either, I got huge disgusting, gristly pieces of ham, slapped between a couple slices of bread.
She kept carving huge chunks off this big hunk of ham and when the ham started turning green she just carved around it.
What I wouldn't have given for a mustard sandwich at that point.
Those sandwiches were disgusting and I haven't liked ham since, but you don't hear me complaining do you?
Israel said: “You aren't going to school and you don't have kids so you should be out working. No wonder you have so much time to sit around feeling sorry for yourself.”
You can buy or not buy my "I'm scared to leave the hovel argument", or not. I’m not actually trying to sell it, I’m just stating facts. It is shocking to me that I (a 23 year old girl from Spencerville, Ohio Population 2,209) would be more scared than you (a 30 something year old man from Tucson, AZ population 486,699) to live in this neighborhood. Wow, that IS a real head-scratcher, isn’t it? I lived on the outskirts of Spencerville from the time I was 5-6 until my wedding day, when I moved into our trailer in Lima, Ohio Population 38,608. Tucson is huge to me and this neighborhood is scary. That is my opinion and I’m allowed to have it.
If someone DID try to break into this house while Becca, Brandon and I were in here, you can bet your butt that I would be there front and center trying to fend off the attacker at least long enough to buy Becca some time to get Brandon out and to safety. He’s only a year old, and it would take her a few minutes to get him out because of the lovely aforementioned 6 foot tall fence. You might think that that is stupid, and that is your right, and you might be correct (after all, you’re the smartest person ever, right?)
I worked at the Holiday Inn for over 5 years (pretty much since I got back from the honeymoon until we moved to Tucson) and if I still lived in Ohio, I would no doubt still be there. It wasn’t a bad job, it didn’t pay much, but it was fun and I got to talk to and meet all kinds of interesting people from all over. I would consider working there again, even in Tucson, except for the fact that the shifts are late at night and I seriously would not feel safe coming home by myself that late at night. I actually already checked into a Holiday Inn Express that my parents stayed at while they were here helping us move in and renovate this house, but the pay isn’t really worth the drive. My income would pretty much pay for my gas to go back and forth, and my work clothing and I feel that it would be quite pointless. Plus, as I said before, my flexibility to go HOME would go right out the window with a job like that.
The whole reason we moved to Arizona in the first place was because Zion kept saying that with all the job opportunities available here, he would be able to get a much better job, one with insurance, so that we could start our family. We’ve been wanting to start our family for the past 4 years, and even with my income, we knew that there was no way we could afford it, plus we didn’t have room in our little trailer, so we have been waiting. People have told us, don’t wait until you can afford a baby, just have one now, because if you wait till you can afford it, it’ll never happen, but that just doesn’t seem right to me. We want to be able to provide well for our children, a house, plenty of food, all the bills to be paid, maybe put something aside for them for their weddings, or college, or cars, or first place. Whatever.
Zion and I have both said since our dating years, that when we would have children, I would be a stay at home mom and homemaker. We actually wanted to have me be a homemaker BEFORE I have kids, too, but up till now that hasn’t happened. Maybe we are ruining our lives by not having me work right now, but they are our lives to ruin, and personally I think the worst thing we have ever done was to move out here.
1) Adversity builds character.
2) About the kids -- (WAIT)
3) You are "HOME" and the sooner you get that, the happier you will be.
4) I'm tired and I'm gonna go to sleep.
goodnight.
Awk-ward.
By the way, has anyone seen the movie "Hoodwinked?" Hilarious, with or without kids.
Hoodwinked is great, I LOVE the singing goat, HAHAHA!! Now, He's a riot!!
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