Catch 22 Research Paper

A Catch 22 Shortly after moving, the Department of Social Services was telling me the only way I could continue to get cash assistance was if I go to a program called strive from 8am until 5pm or go back to work. This meant placing my children in daycare. Strive was this program that you go to where so called professionals teach you how to be job ready, but also talk to you like you aren’t shit. I decided that I would just seek full-time employment. I didn’t want to place my children in child care though. I’ve never been too trusting of others with my children because of my abuse as a child, and also because of the fact that when I was a little girl in preschool, I remember being made to literally wash my mouth out with soap by a European teacher, for telling a European girl to shut up. The European girl had actually told me to shut up first, and I responded back to her by telling her to shut up. My teacher only heard me though supposedly, and I was the one who was reprimanded. I’ve always felt that no one would care for my children like me. I didn’t want to place my children in daycare, but now I was being given an ultimatum so, I figured for all the time I would spend at strive having to have my children in child care for the little bit of money I was making from public assistance, I might as well, go to work full time and put my children in childcare and make way more money. I felt like I was in a catch 22 with the whole working or strive arrangements and having to send my babies to child care; but, going to work …show more content…
It was both a bittersweet moment in my life. I dreaded taking my babies to daycare and just leaving them in the care of strangers. As a matter of fact, I literally cried every day on my way to work once I dropped them off; , but, at the same time, I liked the job experience. I was able to learn something new and socialize with