To put things in a short sentence, things are getting somewhat ugly for me right now. Read on for my situation.
Basically what's going on right now is that I'm 20 years old, working two jobs, am currently not in school, trying to move out of state (TBD), and maintain a relationship with my best friend/crush at the same time who's trying in all of her power (as well as a lot of people from work) to keep me from leaving. To top it all off, my parents are trying in all of their power to get me out of the house to the point of threatening to set a date of when I'm evicted out of my family's house, which they're trying to sell as they try to replace the septic tank which is faulty and now we have the county breathing down our neck to fix it. As of recently, I've just been trying to get a job in the Champaign-Urbana, IL area to go to community college up there, get an apartment, and live on my own until next semester starts since I need 30 days of full-time work hours to prove I didn't move there for in-state tuition.
Phew.
And now I've been offered a management position at Hardee's that makes a surprisingly larger amount of money than I expected. I'd be paid more than any other manager (besides the GM) because they're so desperate to keep me around. Until recently, I've just kept dodging their offers to stick with my plan but they keep adding more icing onto the cake. On top of that, my best friend/crush will also be promoted to manager (along with another person), and the current assistant manager that nobody likes will get fired or transferred to another store since she honestly causes more drama and destruction than assistance. The only reason she's not gone is because the store can't afford to lose another manager (one just moved to Minnesota).
Literally without me there, the GM, GMIT, the assistant manager that everyone likes, and my best friend/crush got together and have completely laid out another plan for me and are trying to sell me on it. In their plan, I move in with my crush in her apartment (she's moving into it in September) to split living costs and work as a manager along with the two new promotions and the current one (for 4 total managers, the most we've ever had in my time being there which will drastically reduce management stress). My general manager keeps promising me she'll pay me anything to make sure I'm comfortable (I do believe her, she literally helped one of the managers get a house). The pay will be a good 40% increase from what I make now (which I'd rather not go into, but I've already gotten two raises). I was quite shocked at how much thought they put into this.
Now in my ideal plan, I was going to move to Champaign-Urbana, IL and attend community college, while transferring from my current Walgreens job into a Walgreens up there. That did not work out, since none of the stores within 50 miles of there are hiring for my Customer Service Associate position. I can't be a shift leader until I'm 21, since I need to be able to sell alcohol. From there, I tried to just all-out try for another job, but even with my beautiful backing of people who love me at my current jobs, no one was interested.
So yesterday and the night before that, my parents cornered me as they tried to use threats to get me out. In the ensuing argument, my mom suggested in anger that I just not go for my dream degree and do whatever else. The more I thought about it though, it didn't seem like such a bad idea. I've wanted to be a meteorologist since I was six, but I've lately lost almost all motivation to chase an Associate's Degree in a program 200+ miles away that can kinda be a background to meteorology but isn't really since the big bachelor's degrees in meteorology are in universities that I can't afford. My mom had kinda brought up Business Management. To be honest, it doesn't look half bad, and I can easily pick that up at just about any community college in this surrounding area.
What to do now? Newest idea is that I move into my own apartment for time being (my parents wouldn't fly with my rooming with a girl, and although my decision, wouldn't want to alienate/disappoint them), accept the management offer at Hardee's, and go to school in this area come spring semester for business management. I'd probably quit my job at Walgreens, considering I can't move up in that job for AT LEAST another 10 months to the day and I may or may not get promoted at all. It's all a lot to chew on right now and I've talked to my friend about it for a over 3.5 hours today as she tries to sell me on her plan. I'm just trying to come up with my own.
And I kinda wanna mod my police car too just saying. Need that extra boost in income AND horsepower you know?
