I don't think I can go back to living at my parent's after I graduate, what do I do?

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Have you spoken to your parents/cousin about it? They may have made an arrangement eg cousin only stays a set length of time, or perhaps they have plans you don't know about yet?

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Is your partner contributing to rent atm? Is that something you could do together when you graduate? You say that moving back in with your parents would make your partner homeless ... what is their contribution to your current accomodation situation, and why couldn't that continue?

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What is your degree? Could you use that to gain employment when you graduate rather than looking for retail jobs?

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My parents have said repeatedly not to worry about it as they've made it known from the beginning that him staying is a temporary situation whilst I'm at university. It's just that I spoke with him over Christmas and it seems a bit like what he does hinges on what I do - so he might not be looking for housing if he knows that I intend to move immediately into a house. The problem is that I don't know what I'm doing, therefore he won't know what he's doing, and I worry that this will result in me coming home and him not having any accomodation prepared.

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Yes! As we currently live in student accommodation we each have seperate contracts for the 2 bedrooms in our house and pay our halves seperately. We can't continue to live where we do as A) It's already been let for next year and B) we really really don't want to live here anymore lol. For context, I'm originally from Manchester, he Stoke-on-Trent, and we're currently living in Leeds. He only moved here as I had no options for second year and we just really don't click with it. Paying the rent isn't an issue as we have the means, but it's getting onto a non-student tenancy that worries me. I'm aware that they may conduct employment checks/proof of earning, and at the minute that isn't something that I have. As we're planning on moving across cities, I feel like I sort of need to be looking at housing now and showing interest so that we can move out seamlessly from one house to another, but I don't feel like I can start doing that without being employed, in the likely case they ask for proof of earnings.

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My degree is Visual Communication and I specialize in illustration/graphic design. Unfortunately the market for this isn't too hot at the minute, and any job postings I find are usually full time that I can't commit to as I still have uni twice a week. I've tried applying for a few and explaining my situation, but it hasn't really been successful. I get call backs from smaller, independent jobs but I feel horribly guilty that I'd have to leave them after 3 months and make them search again which is why I'm trying to focus on retail, as well as having the ability to transfer so that I have income once I'm home and don't hae to start from scratch. I used to work in a pharmacy so I typically do well applying with medical receptionist type jobs, but the responsibility at the pharmacy made me lose sleep so often I don't really want to repeat that lol. Just not having much luck in the employment boat.