Have You Had Experience Being Working Poor?

[AJT]

9. I was a single mom of two young girls working 3 part time jobs

and going to college. I worked in the school cafeteria in the mornings, I did filing for an insurance agent in the evenings and worked for an inventory company late nights and weekends. The community college had day, night and weekend classes. My girls were in daycare almost all of the time. I lived in a month to month 1 bedroom apartment in a bad part of town. I had no car, so it was either walking or taking the bus. By the end of the month I remember making mac and cheese with water because there was no milk. It was very hard. I did that for 2 years, but I knew that when I graduated things would get better, so I did it.
I will say that I did this when there were federal college grants and subsidized daycare so that made things much easier.