No GED--you're fired!

I asked D this morning why Family Literacy seemed to be working for her now when it didn't three years ago.  I said I couldn't remember why she left us and she said she couldn't either.  During those years, she worked fast food and a nursing home job, but eventually began working as an aide to handicapped adults.  This was a job she really liked.  However, she had lied on her application blank and said she had a GED.  Six months later, she was fired.  She asked her employer if she had been honest, would she have been hired?  He said that if he thought she were working on a GED, he would have hired her.  She would like to go back to that job, but we need to get that certificate for her first!