Scared. I'm about to go homeless. I need a place to stay temporarily. I'm diligently pursuing work as a writer. I have a column on Technorati called Convergence In Entertainment. I also have my website: JerryFlattum.com. I'm a good man, just down on his luck and needs alittle help. A ranch or farm situation would be great or something similar with the option of work for room and board while I secure permanent work as a writer. I'm working my way towards LA since LA affords me the greatest opportunity in my career as a songwriter and writer.
I signed up on this page because I have a lot of dreams for my life and I know that sharing them sometimes helps bring the right people into your life to move them along.
A little bit about me. I am a 36 year old single (as of May 2010) mother of two kids with special needs. I back to my hometown to be near family, and am working as a freelance writier which leaves me with the flexible schedule necessary to meet my sons' needs. My finances are a mess due to a combination of factors, including sons's medical bills, my needing a flexible schedule to meet the kids needs so having sporatic work these past few years, the car industry tanking (and thus my ex losing career), my ex's relapse into alcoholism and the 2 years we stayed together after that, moving to try to rent the house to save it from foreclosure only to have bad renters who did not pay their rent (knowing it meant we would lose the house) AND trashed the house horribly, so that even after I got them out (took 6 months!) I was unable to rent the house as I do not have the money for repairs. So a number of factors that have contributed to where I am now.
Now nearly a year after breaking up and being able to breathe again, I am actually starting to look forward to a future again. The kids and I have been doing well, mostly. I have a couple of contracts which include driving over 100 miles most weekdays, as well as free lance writing. I am hoping that freelance writing will be able to be built up enough that by September it can be my career and support my family. We live in a nice little apartment, and even though we have to use the food panty some months, we are making ends meet.
What I really want is to have a small farm with a 4 bedroom house that I own where we can grow our own vegetables, have chickens for eggs, and maybe a couple of goats for milk. I want a 4 bdrm so I can do foster care, as with working from home I would love to be able to open my home to kids with special needs, as I am a experienced in raising kids with needs. I would like it to be near my family as having their extra support and just being near them is very beneficial to me and my children.
I want to make enough money with writing that I can really pay off my old debts and get a fresh start (I could declare bankruptcy but having the $2000 you need to do that is not easy, and if I can, I WANT to pay off those old debts). So that is where I am. Sometimes struggling with living expenses, but mostly doing okay making ends meet. Buried in old debt, but hoping to pay it someday. And looking forward to the future with optimism and hope.
