I'm quite new to dancing, and I really like it, but it seems like I got my timing all wrong and made a bad investment.
I gave myself a deadline for dancing, and stuck to it, reducing my hours at my full-time retail job accordingly. Unfortunately, two weeks (and four shifts for me) into dancing, me and all the staff at my club found out that we would be closing in a week for a month to finish up construction.
That really fucked my shit over, pardon my French. Now my life is spinning in a whirlwind of financial disaster. I can't cover my bills or pay my rent on the few hours I gave myself in retail (and no additional hours are available for me to take). I'm 23 and have an 8-month-old son. My grand scheme was to take my boy to my parents' 800 miles away, and let my parents keep him for two months, in which time I would spend dancing full-time without the hassle of childcare. (His father chooses not to be involved with our son.) I was planning on saving up for a car as well as keeping up on my bills and rent. By the time I picked him up from my parents', I'm sure we would have been sitting pretty.
But the lease is up in a month on my current apt and I think it's going to be almost impossible to find a new place. Firstly, this is my first place and I found it originally as a room on Craigslist, so I didn't need a credit check when I moved in, and I took over the lease after the other tenant moved out.
Secondly, I've been looking at the threads for dancer apartment applications and I think I'm fucked. My credit is horrible (a defaulted credit card when I was 18, almost $900 in dues from community college), I don't have anything to put for a job now (other than the 12 hours a week of retail, and I only danced like 4-5 shifts, so I'm sure that won't even count), and the application for the last remaining available apartments in my area specify that I have to pay rent I owe to any landlord before I can even turn the document in.
I've lived here for almost four years, and this is the first month I haven't been able to pay my rent or bills
I don't have any family here, so I have nowhere to stay if I can't find an apartment. This is really stressing me out...I've lost my appetite and stopped eating regularly, which only happens to me during high-pressure situations like this. Please please someone, I need advice.![]()




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