Please Help! Very Important... :(

Wow -- worked for a national chain and they didn't inform her of the reciprocity requirements for the state of Florida? Damn Great Clips -- I thought you had it more together than that.

@OP

You are in a SL group open to people who live in RL Florida?
She's in Florida.
Invite the family to live with you?

Sell your SL Land. Give the money to your friend.
Downgrade to Basic. Give the money saved to your friend.
Redouble your efforts on the escort front. Give the money to your friend.

You might make more for her that way.

Something tells me Florida has no reciprocity rules. As Chris stated above, it's a source of revenue and helps maintain a monopoly of stylists.

Well the reason I thought of using a box for donations in Lindens is because i thought it would be easier to ask people to donate in Lindens instead of RL money. To be honest I did think about using paypal for collecting to give to her. I am willing to post my e-mail address here to do this for her. Yes, they have tried getting help from the state as well. They aren't even taking applications for rental help until next year. Salvation army is out of funds, they have been waiting for food stamps, cash assistance and medicaid for a month now. Believe me, they are doing everything they can to try and save their home. And this isn't because they don't want to work or anything like that. They are trying to find jobs but no one is hiring. And she does make enough with her hair dressing for him to be a stay at home parent. And he is actually going into the Navy in August. About me having a few businesses in SL, I have my store and that's all. I created a group to eventually buy and sell land but i'm not doing it for a while. Well, here is my email address: [email]qtkatie22@aol.com[/email]

Yes, most states in the US require that a cosmetologist be licensed. Each states has their own requirements when it comes to licensed. It is entirely possible there is also a residency requirement and/or a test that has to be passed in order to get the license from a particular state.

Where do I sign?

You mean they (http://www.state.fl.us/cf_web/) can't even help?
http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/homelessness/efahp.shtml

I mean, I don't live in the USA, so I can't speak to it, but it's really sad that none of the purported services that cite as being helpful cannot help.

Good luck and keep googling -- I'm sure there's a church, shelter, service (private or government) somewhere that can help.

There's also this: http://florida.olx.com/manual-labor-jobs-cat-373

http://www.floridajobs.org/

Yay! Thankies. I'll contact you if I ever get turned out. heeee.

*washes face*

It's the same in Canada. You can't use a commercial liscence out of province. You need to get a new one if you move. I have a few friends who are hair dressers, they have talked about this in the past. That you need to basically get a new liscence if you move. I assume this is an international thing. But I have to ask, why didn't her company let her know of this. I am quite sure you can apply months in advance and just pick it up when you move. You can in Canada anyway.

Perhaps your story is true, but surely you can appreciate why most people here are going to be skeptical to hostile regarding the post.

If your friend hasn't done so, advise her to contact her local Social Services office. They may have a program that can give her temporary assistance directly; if they do not have such a program, they probably have a whole list of other sources and charities that can give such temporary help. From personal experience with many people who have found themselves in situations similar to your friend's, I can tell you that if you look, it's amazing how many resources there are to help people down on their luck.

Aside from the local Social Services office, other places that tend to have information on assistance programs are Legal Aid offices and Domestic Violence shelters. Even if your friend doesn't need legal help or help with domestic violence, those organizations tend to have lots of experience in dealing with people in temporary financial trouble and could at least give your friend information on where to look for help.

Although I wish this woman and her family the best, I have a grandchild whose father is still in grad school, and commitments that include a local homeless shelter, our church, and a sponsor child in Haiti. If I do have extra to give, I tend to donate to reputable charities, or give to people I know personally.

I imagine most everyone here probably have commitments to family, etc., so I'd be surprised if anyone here was either in a position, or of a disposition, to make contributions to someone when there's no possible way of knowing if it's really on the up & up.

Especially since she has kids, filing for emergency assistance would be her best bet.

You have to let me scratch behind your ears occasionally. Maybe sit in my lap while I watch television. Purring is required.

You like catnip?

*calls his dealer*


/done hijacking thread

As others have already said, I hate to sound cold, but seriously, there are solutions for situations like this. I'll leave the subject of the shear irresponsibility behind how they got into the situation in the first place alone, since that was pretty well covered already.

Here's what I'd suggest your friend do. Write pre-emptive letters to every creditor she has. Inform them BEFORE anything gets turned off that the payments will be late for the next two months, but that a specific solution is in the works (getting the license situation straightened out), and that repayment in full will be made by _____ date. I think your friend will find that most, if not all, of her creditors will be very responsive.

As both a business owner and an individual, I've been dealing with creditors my entire adult life (as has virtually every adult in the free world), and I can promise you that 99.9% of the time, they're always willing to work something out as long as you're the one initiating the contact. It's when they have to chase after you that they get nasty. There have been plenty of times in my life that I've had to make late payments. The difference between me and your friend, though, is that I don't just sit around waiting for them to come shut off my power or take my stuff. I simply contact them myself, tell them what's going on, and propse a reasonable plan for getting caught up. Never has a creditor refused to talk, and almost never has one refused to work out a plan.

The important thing to remember is that creditors want your business. They're usually perfectly willing to bend over backwards to please you, as long as you sound mature and confident when you talk to them. Even utility companies, who have no competition and thus don't have to care as much about salesmanship as other types of businesses do, are almost always willing to work with a customer who sounds responsible.

In other words, cold as it may sound, the right thing to do here is to tell your friend to grow up. If a bill has to wait, so be it, but be she must be an adult about it.

Don't just let a bill sit. Take a proactive stance. Contact the biller immediately, and say "I'm afraid I can't pay you right now, since my job has not started yet, but I do have a proposal for you. I'll be starting work two weeks from today, so how about we arrange for 25% of this month's bill to be added to each of the next four months, so in five months time we'll be all set? I think that's a reasonable solution; what do you think?" I'll bet anything most, if not all, will say yes.

As far as my wife's nursing license, reciprocity dealt with whether she would have to retest in each state she was getting her license in. She still had to get a new license in the new state. Not all states honored reciprocity.

I am in Miami- on every street corner you can see the people from Homeless Voice or similar name collecting for the homeless. There are jobs to be had definitely. Assuming- yet again- this is true, there are better ways. There are places hiring- there are- seriously. Wages may suck but they are out there.

(Alert- political rant)

The media has done a real good job of torpedoing our country in an effort to bring down the current political regime - they told us enough times the economy sucked and now it does- however - we are still Americans- and there are jobs to be had. Lawns need mowing, dishes need washing- There is no such thing as jobs Americans won't do. /political rant

Back to the pleasant deviant nonsense now...

Yeah that.

The media doesn't have the ability to make the economy suck.

I do agree with you though on the point that there are jobs to be had if you want one. Just maybe not jobs that you *like* to do.

Yep. Several years ago, I had a nice little business built up doing hair and nails in NC.
My husband was transferred suddenly to GA. Even though I had passed the NC state cosmetic exam with a perfect score, I would have had to retake the GA state test in order to be licensed here. Since that would have also meant rebuilding a business in new area, I went to work with the same company as my husband instead.

Also, on the 'there are jobs to be had' note.
A man came in our store a year ago and asked if he could wash the company trucks. He was going door-to-door in the business park doing this to make rent. After chatting with him a few minutes, we hired him as a driver, with the idea that anyone willing to walk door-to-door and wash cars in Atlanta heat must have one hell of a work ethic. We were not wrong.

We have another guy who does our, and several other businesses windows twice a month.

The reason the media has the power is because of sheeple: crowd mentality and tell me three times.

As for the job being one you want to do or not is beside the point when the only choice left is which bridge you will be sleeping under that night.

There's a reason the rest of the country calls it "The F State."

Actually, there are several.

i need money too. and i'm more important. just 'cause you don't know me doesn't mean other people don't.

send money to me. i am even more unwilling than your friends to work at Burger King or babysitting until i get back on my feet.



enabling people to be losers is not helping them. it's perpetuating the situation.

move along.

The Florida panhandle - it's not a noun, it's a lifestyle. :/

That's not the media's doing.
That is the doing of people who choose to believe what the idiot box tells them.

You are slicing bunnies here.. the reason the media rants and carries on and creates self-fulfilling prophecies is because the idiots that don't realize they should think for themselves. Witness please "Global Warming" since renamed Climate Change 'cause the evidence didn't back the nomenclature - don't get me started on drilling for oil and before any one injures themselves trying to pigeon hole me- yes, opinionated, arrogant, imperialist all good adjectives - other than that- goof and semi- coherent at times goes over well also.

/We now return you to regularly scheduled inanity.

Red cross, Salvation Army, Goodwill, United Way, Rescue Mission, and every church in the area, the state employment office, DSHS

I managed a homeless shelter earlier in life. These were the places we told our clients to go. They can provide emergency funds and food stamps, short term loans, and some will even pay your bills. Also, the local non-profit consumer credit agency can help them get their bills sorted.

I assure you they'll get much more help out of these places than you'll be able to collect for them in lindens. when 256L-1USD, and they need at least hundreds of dollars, you're not gonna find that in SL. This is as bad as the guy who needed money to take his fiancee to his high school prom and asked on a SL forum for money..... *sigh*