Tiamat's Immediate Moving Fund

Edit- 5 July 2024: Hey. So, just so nobody's being accidentally mislead, here's the current state of things.

I have moved. I have not actually got the new job yet. In fact, I haven't been getting any communication, which has my anxiety ratcheted up to about a sixteen out of ten. And I no longer have my previous job- the amount of time I had to spend out of work earlier this year was too much.

So now I apartment, but also jobn't, which is making things like paying rent impossible for the moment. Overall, I don't think this is any better a situation, just different.

At this point, funds are going to rent and bills for until I either conclude that I have to give up on this new job I was so excited about (and am now horribly worried about) or actually get it.

Once more, I don't know how I'm going to make it, but I'm going to make it some way or other. I have to.

Right?

-Tiamat

Hi, Tiamat here.

I'm in a bit of a rough spot. I need to be ready to move and finish doing so by or at the end of the month, basically. And things haven't been great this winter. I'm sure you know that, at this point I don't think anybody has had a good time this winter. All kinds of bad going on.

In my case, my work situation got a lot worse with the turn of the year, when my room (and therefore coteachers and preschool class) were changed with no warning given. Being autistic, sudden changes stress me considerably more than a neurotypical person, and combining that with the weather and extended difficulty contending with the coteachers in this new room, I've had a lot of migraines on top of what would ordinarily be expectable illness. This loss of worktime has pretty thoroughly drained my account at the credit union.

There's a hopeful side- I should, very soon, be getting a new job at a place that's better managed and provides more support. But! I'm not sure how long that is going to take. And then after that there's a potential lag time with no income.

At the same time, my sister's family, with whom I've been staying, are finally moving into an apartment appropriate for them at the end of this month! Which, I'm absolutely happy about that for them. They've needed it for a long time. Unfortunately for me (and only me), this means that I cannot continue to stay with them. There just isn't going to be room, even if all I do is occupy a bedroom as I'm doing now.

So, I need to move, but I'm going to have to do it on funds I haven't got at the moment. Unfortunate.

Hence, fundraiser. I'm going to be looking for an apartment to move into that's within the Greater San Francisco Bay Area- ideally something right by BART- but I need to have money so I can do it in time. I *can* go somewhere furnished on a temporary basis, which opens more options and flexibility, but right now I'm also paying for a storage unit for the majority of my things. I'd really like to not be doing that while also renting a place.

So, this fund. I'm estimating move-in costs (deposit, first month, truck rental, etc.) to come up with the amount for this. I believe I left enough of a margin on it for some wiggle room, but not so much as to be asking people to fund, I don't know, theoretical joblessness or something.

I'm going to try to spread this around, and I'm going to ask friends to do so as well. If, by some chance, you have a lead on a place near the BART that I could rent where I might not need the money margin, or a deal on a single-bedroom apartment (I'm not mentally in a place to operate well with roommates, and I definitely need a proper kitchen, so a studio is pretty well a no-go), or something else that could help, please feel free to pass that back along to whoever passed you the link to this GoFundMe- I'm not going to insist that money is the only thing that can help.

I hope you are doing better than expected this year.

-Tiamat