Hi. Well, I’m finding it very hard to ask for this. I’m a primary carer (pretty much single parent) of two boys, 11 and 4 years old. I’m a software developer & I actually have a good job (now!) but I find myself in a very desperate short-term position. I basically need to borrow £200 until Friday, when I get paid for the first time since the New Year.
The thing is, I started a new job in September last year, working for a company developing software to help people with Alzheimers Disease & their families. I had options back then, but I’d lost my own dad to Alzheimers in late 2019 & the job really appealed to me. All was great, I loved it. But the owner of this company had been less than completely honest with me in terms of the viability of his company as a going concern. I only found out around Christmas time just how serious things were & I worked my very best day & night to help keep things afloat, but ultimately this company went bust & I lost my job.
I’m pretty good at what I do & happily I was able to secure another job pretty quickly & I’ve been there about four weeks already, so longer-term, things are looking up. But I’ve had to struggle with no salary since December and my first payday with my new company is actually on THURSDAY this week (24th March) – so basically it’s been so tough & so stressful and the frustrating thing is that I SO NEARLY MADE IT!!! But I’m left now with £5.11 available to me (and a few bills to catch up on) but that’s just not going to do me, my wife, my boys & our dogs until the end of the week.
My wife can’t work as she’s disabled, so everything depends on me. (I’m actually disabled too, although it doesn’t stop me doing my work in IT. Looking after the boys can be physically challenging, but I’m not looking for any violin-playing here! I’m used to it & it’s fine.)
I’d be happy to pay back on Friday in full with £25 of interest & by way of thanks. I’ve looked everywhere I can think of, including the “r/borrow” thing on Reddit which sounded hopeful but you need to have amassed 1000 “karma” points & I have none as I barely use the platform! So I’ve turned to this.
I’m not sure what else to say on here right now, especially at the risk of boring people. As I’m sure is the case with everybody, there is more to my story, but that’ll probably do for now. Happy to answer questions, I guess, or provide any other credentials or proof of ID. It’s a genuine request.
I think I’m supposed to include my PayPal thing, so here it is : https://www.paypal.me/gamerkits
Thankyou so much for taking the time to read my post.