u/FinanceSA

Hi nannies!
So I have a dilemma of what to do. Last week I interviewed with a great family. They have one little boy & they are very lovely! Everything im looking for in a family except the hours are a bit long (8-6). The job starts tomorrow & they just told me last night that they’d love to offer me the job.
Then yesterday I interviewed with another great mom. Also exactly what im looking for. Same pay as the first & hours are so much better (10-5). The problem here is that i am only meeting them next week. I dont wanna pass up on the first hoping to land the second then it doesn’t work. But i genuinely need those 10-5 hours because i will be going back to school in July so it’ll be the perfect schedule to factor in my studies.
I guess my question is how can i let the first family know im moving forward with another family but also still have wiggle room for the future if possible?

Hi everyone! New to this platform & wanted to drop a few words.
Backstory: I am prone to diabetes because my maternal side of the family is living with it in numbers. My mom included.
So last year I realized I am working out yet I’m not feeling good at all. I was constantly inflamed, constantly bloated, always constipated & I started having cravings. Then one day I saw a video of a doctor, forgot his name, and he was basically saying if someone has my symptoms then their insulin is high. That made a lot of sense to me because I knew my family history. & he suggested intermittent fasting to lower the sugar. I did exactly that. I only ate between 4pm and 8pm for about a week & immediately noticed a difference. I had more energy, my bowel was moving everyday, my cravings went away. So I continued to try it for three more months. Fast forward to this year January, I decided to completely stop drinking alcohol. Which gave me a lot of clarity. That’s when my natural journey began. I chose to only buy ingredients at the grocery store & cook everything from scratch. I make my own bread with 100% whole wheat flour too. I do not eat anything processed whatsoever & that changed my life. Every single thing I had a problem with disappeared. My stomach is flatter, my skin is brighter, my hair is thicker, my mind is sharper & I could go on but you get the gist lol. It has been 4+ months living like this & I will not be changing to anything else. This complete natural life is genuinely so great & I am so happy to have seen that doctor’s video bcos who knows I would have been diabetic by now.

This past January was when i had my last drink. My partner and I drank heavily the past holiday season. I had a very tough year & was an alcoholic for all of 2025. What I thought would just be a sober January turned to realizing my alcoholism and vowed to never touch it again.
On the 3rd/4th day with no alcohol, I found myself shaking. I had never experienced that before because i always had a drink. When i finally realized that this is a withdrawal symptom, I was genuinely shocked and disappointed at myself. I really let myself get to rock bottom like that? Then I started remembering all the times my loved ones told me how nice I am when I’m not drinking but as soon as I am tipsy, I am a nightmare. A friend of mine even invited me to her sister’s wedding but asked that I do not drink. All those memories made me so embarrassed of myself. How could I have let it get that bad & not notice?
I have so much healing to do in this journey. I have so much to catch up on in life. I am just trying to forgive myself one step at a time. I have been reading books and working out again. Things i used to love doing before I knew the bottle.
Anyway, I joined the group because I have officially decided that I will never go back to that life again & would love to see stories of people going through the journey too. I have not yet found myself, but I know everyday will be closer to learning myself without alcohol cos I genuinely have no clue how to navigate life without it. Especially now that summer is upon us.

Hi everyone!

So I will be studying towards a BSc from June 1st & i just received my evaluations. I did my transfers with Sophia Learning & only 12 courses were transferrable making the program only 34% complete. I was hoping for 70% at least because i do not have the money to study for two terms and that is probably what i would need to do considering i will have to complete 24 courses with WGU.

Is there a way to ask why the rest of the courses weren’t accepted ? Or should I opt for Study.com & take chances with that? Because I don’t understand why most of my transfer courses weren’t accepted