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In reply to the discussion: Do they REALLY think MOOD is the reason for less holiday spending?? [View all]PoliticalBiker
(328 posts)I have a paycheck. I am NOT happy.
My paycheck runs out well before the month does.
I MUST work 40hrs/wk EVERY week or I fall behind on something.
Mind you I live alone, in a trailer park, single-wide. My needs are modest if not low. I don't want much, just a decent wage to make living not so on the edge.
Utilities, lot rent, food, vehicle ins, vehicle fuel and meds, then the money is gone.
When my house got foreclosed on, I got a storage for a lot of my stuff- mostly garage. Haven't been able to afford to make a payment on it since. It's probably gone and collectors are calling.
I can't even go out to breakfast when I lose power without going over-budget.
Vehicle breaks... I'm out of a job because I can't get to work.
I'm a memeber of the under-employed and working poor. I make over min. wage, but not a lot more.
I don't see how people can make it making min. wage. If I did, I'd be living in a shelter and eating at the local soup kitchen.
I have skills, but I'm not very marketable... I'm over 50, no degree, bad credit and savings are gone. Even though discrimination because of age is illegal, who is going to hire someone 50+ for a good wage? Easier and CHEAPER to hire some young'n for half as much and train him/her up. Don't think that isn't one of the most often discriminatory abuses there is.
I used to make much more... before I got laid off
I was, along with my s/o, bless her heart, part of the middle-class. Lower end, but still middle class. We could afford our two Harleys, could go out to dinner on occasion, afford xmas. When the house got forclosed on, we parted ways. Now? Well...