How the forget am I supposed to live my life? I have a degree in an ENGINEERING FEILD with an ARCHITECTURAL type job, yet I need to work two jobs, 72-80 hours a week just to be able to afford to live in a 2 bed 1 bath house. Why do I make slave wages while my girlfriend, who doesn't even have a degree, makes 45k+ a year? "Bruh just get a new job" shut the forget up on god. Every single job in my field of work requires 2+ years of experience, EVERY SINGLE ONE. So basically I need to throw away my early 20's for two years until I can actually move up in life? And my parents want me to go back to college and get my Bachelor's. How the EVER LIVING forget am I supposed to do that on top of my extensive workload? I literally work 7 am to 11pm. I get home and I don't even have time to shower. I just immediately go to bed just so I can wake up and repeat the same bullstuff. My phone even acknowledges my work office as "Home". The weekends are spent catching up on sleep and doing house chores and maintenance. I have a good 5 hours PER WEEK to relax and do what I want. I asked my boss for a raise but he basically said no because I haven't worked here long enough. Inflation rose nearly 8% but my paycheck didn't. All my coworkers are having kids and living perfectly fine because they get paid actually decent salaries, while I get paid as much as a restaurant cook. The boss for my other job has no say in my wage, and HR definitely wouldn't approve of it. So not only do I get like $2500 per month to pay my bills, but I get to watch all my friends visit foreign countries and do wild stuff because they live off mommy daddy money. I don't get invited to stuff nor can I even attend anything due to how busy I am constantly. I loving hate how stupid boomers keep spouting the same handicapped bullstuff like "well back in my day I made $7 an hour and and and" Bitch thats like $24/hr adjusted for inflation. God loving damn.
Thank god for rising gas prices, my car insurance jumping up $60 (I have a PERFECT record on a paid off vehicle), and inflation being the highest its been in years. Did I mention I never got any stimulus checks nor have I been credited via tax returns? forget me.
I'm so loving exhausted. I want to sleep. I want to enjoy my 20's. I'll be 23 this year and I can only recall working like a sweatshop worker for the past few years, either being in college or just in general at my job. The American Dream.
