more about Amabel and jobs

In one of my posts yesterday (before I picked up Always and Forever), I'd said this:
"And she never goes off to get training, or live on the dole for a while until she is trained for a career."
This is absolutely true for Amabel. She muses that, "She would have to train for something... But training cost money, and she wasn't sure there would be any. She could get a job and save enough to train" (p. 30). But then she comes up with the waitressing/National Trust idea, and hares off on that instead. It never occurs to her to ask her mother for some start-up costs, or to live at home while she commutes to a training, because after all they've been in business together, and surely Amabel has a right to some of the money, if her mother chooses to give up the business?