I didn't have much time to adjust from single high school graduate, wife and now mother. I am trying my hardest even though times get hard. Being a 21 year old wife and mother is not where I expected to be 5 years ago...
2005 was my sophomore/junior year in highschool. That year was the year of my grandchampion FFA market steer, first boyfriend and a horse judging trip to Massachusetts. The memories!!! I had planned to be a vet tech or collage for dairy science.
I had been working at a tie stall dairy for a long time and in the fall of 2006 I started working at another dairy closer to home. My knees had started bothering me so the carousel parlor was a better fit. My senior year, in 2007, I had plans to run for a position on the state FFA officer team. It was a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. I had my application submitted and was ready for the interviews. I was approached by one of my bosses and they said that if I became an officer, they would have to switch back to 2 milking a day because they couldnt handle 3! that made me feel good and bad all at they same time. The good part was that I was appreciated, the bad was that I felt bad for leaving. I felt that bad that I stayed... I stayed where I was promised to learn everything that I needed to know about becoming a dairy herdsman!! Everything I wanted plus the fact that I didn't need to pay schooling!!! Yeah!!! Or so I thought...
I continued to work there believing that I would actually get somewhere in life....
The dairy expanded from about 200 cows to 550 and from an 8 cow carousel to a double 16 haring bone parlor. Much to my dreams!!! But sadly I was "laid off" early in june when i was six months pregnant. I was starting to see specialist because the baby was small. I also had my health insurance through the dairy. I was told that they were laying me off because they wanted to hire a full time person from another local dairy that was bought out by the government. I asked if I did anything wrong and was told "no, your a great worker and we're going to miss you." I was not offered a job back and being 6 months pregnant, no one would hire me.
Paying the bills became harder and my husband couldn't cover all of my bills.
After much thought I decided to file for unemployment benefits. I was approved and was beginning to catch up on my bills when I got a letter saying that my benefits were appealed and the reasoning was that I was pregnant. Wow! DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!! I was shocked... and speechless!!!
I was still granted my benefits but in October I received another appeal letter. This time I was told that I had "falsified" information and that I was fired, not laid off like I was told... I now have a hearing for these benefits and I need prayer...
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