still struggling

[Jim1234]

V, in my field, promotion is a matter of seniority, so it's not as much a compliment as you think, but I appreciate the thought.

Here support ends at 18, so I have 2.5 years left. She has floated the idea of me continuing child support while they're in college. I haven't told her ("I still need time to think on it"), but she's out of her mind if she thinks that's happening. I will continue to pay for their support, but I won't pay HER for their support. I don't know how she expects me to pay for college AND child support.

I just hate hate hate the idea of HAVING to work overtime because it seems like a vicious cycle. I pick up work 1 month out of three, so she takes a bigger bite of my earnings, so now I have to pick up work 2 out of three to pay for the bigger bite, so now she takes the biggest bite, and I have to work overtime every month......