If your income is not enough to live on, what do you need to do to change that? Not talking about the short run but the long run. Is there a side hustle you can do? Is there a way to work towards a promotion at work so you would get paid more, or eventually move into a new career? Could you be using any of your time right now to train or educate yourself for a better job in the future?

Given 10 years of marriage, alimony will probably only be for 5 years, so you might as well start now working on how to brng your income up.What kind of work do you do now? What skills do you have? What kind of work have you done in the past? What are you good at?