Reply To: I am not in high school anymore, Chessed is nice, BUT I need a parnassah!

I am 19, no seminary credits, no college credits, but to be honest with you, I need to move out of my house, and I need to subsidize my daily expenses, and therefore, literally, cannot afford to be a chessed girl. I have spent a number of years volunteering, and I have had paid jobs (I am angry, and I apologize if the tone in this section was condescending).

In terms of positions I am looking for, I don’t live in Denver, or New York, and we have established that my town is having a yeshivat maharat person speak (or already spoke) at a shul that does not have a mechitza whose rabbi graduated from YCT. I am looking for just about any position that pays. I don’t have a car, and we have not yet established the public transportation options for my area, so I will leave that up to you all to keep on guessing. My ultimate goal as of now is to be a preschool teacher, however, I am still trying to put together the college picture, and from where I am standing, it looks like I will be responsible for paying for my college education. Ideally, I would like to work in a Jewish place, but the reality is that I will work anywhere except for churches, mosques, treif restaurants as long as I can take off of work for shabbosim and yamim tovim.