Again not to be uncaring but you'd have a hard time holding much for a job several places not just truck driving. Employers do want employees they can rely on to be at work. It's easier to get an employee out the door faster if something were to happen with your mother if you're working in a factory or another controlled setting than it is out driving a truck making deliveries locally. It can be done but common sense should tell you it's not as easy. They have to get someone out to meet you to take the truck over or have you bring it back to the office. You won't be driving a car so you can't just run over there. It sounds as if this could be happening often with your situation and a lot of employers wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot pole if they're aware of it prior to employment. If you were an established, reliable employee who had a similar situation come up they'd probably work with you. Another question is, if you get an interview are you going to start it off with "I've got to check on my mom several times a day to see if she's ok" or "I need all these days off here because I have to take her to the DR." That's a red flag to employers and good luck getting hired for anything other than a controlled setting. But that also would get old for a lot of employers period factory or not if you're a new employee or one with a so-so record anyway.
Most nursing homes/assisted living facilities that I know of take the person's SS check for their stay. If they have assets you two should have switched that over before they go in. If your mother is having seizures regularly, she needs other care of some sort without a doubt. Whether it's a nursing home,or hospice or a CNA checking in on her a few times a day. That's my opinion and it isn't meant to offend you but it's also reality.
I don't know anything of the school and there are plenty of crappy ones out there. What I have seen is the posts they've made here listing some local places to apply at but there is no gurantee of a local job. Those places don't have to hire you. I don't know what the school said to you about local opportunities when you signed up for the course. I also don't know if you heard what they said or heard what you wanted to hear. There's a difference. If they truly didn't give a crap they probably wouldn't have posted here. Honestly there's only so much they can do. The brunt of the job search is up to you and how much you want to do the job.
Good luck, but it appears as though you didn't do much research prior to going to trucking school. You should have waited until you were prepared. You can't lay that at the doorstep of the school that's on you. There is no gurantee of local job placement you said that in your first post. You probably should have picked something else like a CNA course. There is a big demand for that and that would be a guranteed local job in Phoenix with all the old folks. Plenty of hours as well. It's a thought and it'd be something steady until you can get your stuff straight. I commend those people that can deal with that on a daily basis. You'd be home every day that's what you want. Do you have a passenger endorsement? What about those buses that haul the old folks around shopping or to the DR.?
Good Luck on the job search and I mean that.
Southwest Truck Driver Training in Phoenix,Az -not happy with them
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