My sister is having a rough time
Because of osteopenia which comes before osteoporosis, she feels she can’t risk her health for the police academy. She has tried to apply for other jobs criminal justice jobs but has gotten nothing so far.there are very few if any openings in our area it seems. She wanted to be a federal agent or something like a crime analyst or private investigator. She thought the police academy would be a steppingstone into other criminal justice and psychology roles in law enforcement. She is really depressed and is lacking hope now. She feels without a purpose and that she went to school for no reason because she worked really hard for her criminal justice and psychology bachelors degrees. She doesn’t want to get into more debt by doing a psychology or criminal justice masters degree unless an employer would help pay for it. She is working as a paraprofessional in a school system after being a substitute teacher and hates her job. I don’t know how to comfort her or make her situation better. She needs a job that keeps her active and something she likes to do. She feels she cannot take a criminal justice internship or psychology internship because it’s most likely unpaid and even paid ones are not enough. Money as she has some bills to pay even if my parents help her out with other bills. She cried a lot today and couldn’t even get herself to church today. That’s how depressed she is. I wish something opened up for her. Unlike me, she did everything right and life is still slapping her across the face. Lack of career prospects and worrying about health issues with her bones. Last year she got raped. She had a professional job down in Tennessee but hated it as she worked mostly from home and was not kept active. There was also no room for advancement or anything to change her job role within the state organization she worked for. She went from having a job with ten hours a day four days a week and overtime’s worked overtime and her own apartment. In Tennessee to coming back to live at home with me and my parents and working jobs that she didn’t.need college degrees for or work unrelated to her degrees like substitute teaching, trying to get a shitty personal trainer position, working in cafes etc. I feel so sorry for her. I screwed up my life and have to fix it as an older adult. But my sister did everything she was supposed to do it isn’t fair that she should have to take such a hit to her self esteem.
