Personal Woes and Advice 5

[WarKitty]

Well one you could just not tell your parents about any lower paying job. But in addition, I certainly didn't mean STOP looking for a better job. I mean that should be a continual improvement goal anyways. There are definitely cliffs in the US welfare system. If you're right on the edge of one of those it can certainly be rational to look at the alternatives in lowering your income, if in the end you have more at the end of the day.

Not telling them really wouldn't be possible. It's not like I just go off to work randomly - a change in my schedule would be noticed and I'd need to explain where I was going and why. Plus there's stuff like "meet me after work" and such where I'd have a hard time coming up with why that wouldn't work.