Honestly shit like this is making me a bit of a doomer about my personal life. I’m already a doomer politically but I was hoping to embrace grill-pill, but it turns out grills cost money.
I’m in my 30s now and most of the stuff I really want to do with my life requires some degree of financial stability, but the job market sucks and will likely never get better, housing market sucks. If it really keeps up like this Wtf am I supposed to do with my life? Drink and play pirates video games (that’s assuming booze stays affordable)? I’m not offing myself, I got too loving of a family for that, but what do I got to look forward to besides another 30-40 years of being broke in retail?
And before anyone says “ORGANIZE!” No. I have about as much faith in the American Working Class as I have in an expired egg salad sandwich from Food Lion to not give me diarrhea. Every leftist org in my area is a joke and I don’t have the charisma or energy to personally remake it into the Bolsheviks 2.0.
I did what I was told to do since I was a kid to be a “good, responsible adult”. I went to college and got a degree. Went right into a career and have worked for the last 10 years non-stop with no gaps longer than a month or two. I make above the median income in our country but nothing crazy, but it’s a sturdy job and one that would be considered middle class in previous generations. However, I keep getting pushed back to entry level or just one step above it and there’s never any upward movement.
I had to sell my house after 2 years because I couldn’t afford the mortgage payments, I was always just barely clinging on and it was the cheapest starter house in my somewhat suburban/rural small town. Now I’m renting and rent is now almost as high as my mortgage was anyway, and the houses in my town have basically doubled in value over the last 5 years.
There’s zero hope I will ever be able to afford a house on my own. There’s zero hope that I can ever retire. There’s zero hope I could have kids and put them through college or pay for anything. I budget and am thrifty, I barely eat out or buy anything. I wear 5 year old clothes and hand-me-downs.
Honestly shit like this is making me a bit of a doomer about my personal life. I’m already a doomer politically but I was hoping to embrace grill-pill, but it turns out grills cost money.
I’m in my 30s now and most of the stuff I really want to do with my life requires some degree of financial stability, but the job market sucks and will likely never get better, housing market sucks. If it really keeps up like this Wtf am I supposed to do with my life? Drink and play pirates video games (that’s assuming booze stays affordable)? I’m not offing myself, I got too loving of a family for that, but what do I got to look forward to besides another 30-40 years of being broke in retail?
And before anyone says “ORGANIZE!” No. I have about as much faith in the American Working Class as I have in an expired egg salad sandwich from Food Lion to not give me diarrhea. Every leftist org in my area is a joke and I don’t have the charisma or energy to personally remake it into the Bolsheviks 2.0.
Mood
I did what I was told to do since I was a kid to be a “good, responsible adult”. I went to college and got a degree. Went right into a career and have worked for the last 10 years non-stop with no gaps longer than a month or two. I make above the median income in our country but nothing crazy, but it’s a sturdy job and one that would be considered middle class in previous generations. However, I keep getting pushed back to entry level or just one step above it and there’s never any upward movement.
I had to sell my house after 2 years because I couldn’t afford the mortgage payments, I was always just barely clinging on and it was the cheapest starter house in my somewhat suburban/rural small town. Now I’m renting and rent is now almost as high as my mortgage was anyway, and the houses in my town have basically doubled in value over the last 5 years.
There’s zero hope I will ever be able to afford a house on my own. There’s zero hope that I can ever retire. There’s zero hope I could have kids and put them through college or pay for anything. I budget and am thrifty, I barely eat out or buy anything. I wear 5 year old clothes and hand-me-downs.
I DID WHAT EVERYONE SAID TO DO AND I GET NOTHING
Yup