I got the "Just-got-Paid" Blues

[FirstLight]

Fuuuuck! I am so tired of working my ass off and barely scraping by.

I literally JUST got paid yesterday, now after the car ins and phone bill, got declined at the grocery store... not to mention gas and electric still due...


This fucking WORLD, man! Been trying to find a better job for a year at least. Not an option to move for better opportunities, kids still in HS and I'm not good with transition like that anyway.
So all I can do is show up for work Monday, and do what I do.

Begged and borrowed some pasta and potatoes from a friend to help the next couple dinners along. Got pb&J and eggs still... gonna be asking my mom for help if I can. But ugh...the ONLY time I feel flush of for a few weeks after the tax return, and then it's back to scraping for life. I'm SO OVER IT!!!

[ailsagirl]

1. It's frustrating and infuriating

And what gets me is that every time I turn around, the prices on things have gone up. Our salaries don't go up-- that's for sure-- yet all those things we need to get by with on a daily basis sure do!

Grrrrrr!!!!!!

PS Hang in there, FirstLight-- things will improve

[FirstLight]

2. exactly...

I shop at Grocery Outlet (discount groceries) and basically have even noted that prices for everything, even at Wal-Mart, are way too high. I never shop at the mainstream stores anymore because it's nuts!

Just so tired sometimes of feeling like the fucking hamster in the cage..running on that wheel...forever.

[Anon-C]

3. Its a sick age we live in. Take heart and stay strong! nt

[yallerdawg]

4. Universal Basic Income.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BasicIncome?src=hash

[FirstLight]

5. yeah,

and if I was to grow food etc for us in our yard, it would still be 6 months before I had results...

This whole "money" thing just means I get to worry about it all the time, not just once a season or whatever like my ancestors.

[yallerdawg]

6. We fell for a line...

and generation after generation pays for it, over and over again.

Slave wages for subsistence, keeping us 'alive' to get to back to work tomorrow.

This is our lot. Our "lives of quiet desperation."

You're not alone.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. I feel ya. For the first time in my life...

I've had to resort to going to the food give-aways the local food bank does. I've worked HARD all my life, and now its come to this. Greatest country in the world...unless you are not in the 1%.