Help Lori Not Go Homeless.

[Lorizael]

So, in June, the lease is up on the townhouse I'm renting with three friends, and we're going our separate ways. My original plan was to move to Seattle and start a new life, but then this whole recession thing happened and the job market in Seattle dried up. My next plan was to find a little apartment somewhere around DC (I currently live in a DC suburb) and live on my own for the first time.

But now I need a new plan. Because the company I work for ain't doing too hot. And they just announced that, in order to get through the summer, they're "asking" all of their employees to work only four days a week for the next three months. So I'm taking a 20% pay cut at a time when I need more money for moving expenses. I was planning on asking for a raise; I guess that's not going to happen now.

I have virtually no savings and I just bought a car, so I don't have much in the way of assets to float on.

As I see it, these are my options:

1. Find another job (either a new full-time job or a part-time job to supplement my current one).

2. Sleep in my office.

3. Go back to living with my parents.

4. Find a roommate on Craigslist and live frugally.

5. Go postal.

6. Sell my body to the night.

What do you think, 'Poly?

[Asher]

Suck it up and live with the 'rents and stockpile cash til the market gets better. Then do your move.

[DanS]

Group house. Get connected.

[Krill]

Move in with another DC Polytubbie.

[MikeH]

I'd go with what Asher said. And also look for a new job in the meantime. If the company is cutting 20% of hours it might soon start cutting jobs entirely.

[MikeH]

More flexibility to move elsewhere in the country if you aren't tied into a house.

[Lorizael]

I should probably point out that selling my body to the night is more palatable than moving back in with my parents. I wasted the money they spent sending me to college and I'd really rather not ever have to ask them for anything again.

[CrONoS]

1. Go back to living with my parents.

2. Find a roommate on Craigslist and live frugally. (You can find a good, fun and caring roommate if you filter enough)

Edit:

You don't want to live with your "girlfriend" for some times?

[Asher]

I should probably point out that selling my body to the night is more palatable than moving back in with my parents. I wasted the money they spent sending me to college and I'd really rather not ever have to ask them for anything again.

Wasted? Did you get a philosophy degree?

[Krill]

English IIRC.

[Asher]

Oh, ****

[Lorizael]

You don't want to live with your "girlfriend" for some times?

We haven't been together very long. Living together would be a bad idea.

Wasted? Did you get a philosophy degree?

I didn't get a degree.

[Asher]

Why not?

[Kitschum]

Sneak in your parents house when they've gone to bed and sleep on the couch. Leave before they get up in the morning. Or sleep in your car.

1) should probably be your priority if possible

[Lorizael]

Why not?

Depression sucks. Signing up for classes and not showing up is much cooler. But that was several years ago. I'm better now.