What Do I Even Do Now????
This is the most lost I have ever been and I don’t even know if this is the right place to ask for advice on this but here we are..
My partner just found out that they are losing their job with in a months time. His company is moving a bunch of departments overseas and despite his star performance at work it didn’t matter at the end of the day, all they could tell him was he could apply for other positions with in the company that are still here in the United States but he would likely have to move and they would not provide any needed funds to relocate. The severance package is poor despite him working there for many years at this point and given he takes the severance I’m not sure how that would affect unemployment if that’s also even an option.
He has been looking for other jobs non stop, but given what he was making hourly it’s hard to find in this small town with no medical degree since that’s majority of the job options left around here paying close to what he was making.
I work part time overnight and also do photography (from portraits to events and I sell natural prints) but it’s always been difficult for me to figure out how to reach more people so while I get business I could definitely get more if I knew where to start around here.
I am applying to any jobs I can see that I qualify for that pay more/provide more hours to try and cover as much of the fall here as possible too. But I wish I could figure out how to really utilize photography in the crisis because what I make hourly with that is much better than my overnight job… I am so scattered brain now that I really don’t know where to begin or what to do to fix this.
We already regularly discuss budget every other month, before this even happened we had cut any expense we didn’t need. It’s just the baseline necessities we have left but in total that’s about 4,000 a month. If I knew ways to get my photography name out there I could handle covering that pretty easily, so I feel like I’m just being really stupid with marketing to be honest… idk…
I’m in full panic mode at this point, no idea where to begin, what options we have here in the state of Pennsylvania. I’m just lost… I feel helpless, I feel like a failure or useless even though I have the drive to work hard I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing now.
Is there anything I can do to try and better my odds with the skills I have currently at the very least?…. Maybe someone could say something I just wasn’t thinking of ?…
Even just my nature photography prints I sell, if I knew where to put my self out there for people to see maybe that would help me?… is there places I can put my name out there, show some of my work and see if any bites to try and bring some cash in that way?… I have never felt so stupid, like I do now. I feel like a newbie all over again. I never stressed about photography like I am now, it was always just something I kept on the side even though it made more money for me per hour than my other job for what ever reason, comfortability maybe? Comfortable doesn’t matter now though, I gotta figure something out to pay the bills and I’m desperate for anything I can do to take charge and handle this. This is the most vulnerable I have ever been online, and it’s embarrassing but idk what else to do, my pride doesn’t really matter at this point, I need to figure out answers and provide results for my family.
We don’t have kids but we do have pets, we own a home, so things are at stake still.
Any advice would be so greatly appreciated…..
Posted Aug 7, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC