'I made $140k last year and now I work for $15/hour': Admirable single mother gets fired but persists, putting her pride aside and finding a minimum wage job to bring home the bacon for her family

No matter how much we complain about clocking in every day at the office or on the job site, we need that paycheck every two weeks–otherwise, what're we doing here? Although we may feel like we're on top of the world one minute, we could lose our job in a second, rocking the boat of our lifestyle and threatening to dismantle everything we've built so far. But the single mother in our next story proved that not everything is flushed down the toilet when you're laid off, as long as you're willing to persevere and put your pride aside.

Being a single mother is tough enough–supporting a household on one income and all that. But for the original poster (OP) of our next heroic tale, her family's lives were at stake after she got fired from a position making $140k per year. With no time to waste and no jobs on the horizon, she did what any hardworking mother would do… She bit the bullet and applied to a minimum wage job far below her skillset, simply because it was her only option.