It just feels endless
I started working when I was 16 years old, almost 22 now, and since then I've had so many jobs. Multiple food service jobs, was forced into a manager role at a grocery store at 19, insurance brokering, and two seperate warehouse jobs. I still work at a warehouse today for about 30ish hours a week for $15/hr. From 16 I was helping my single mother pay bills and now I can barely afford to pay my own in my own apartment. I wake up, eat breakfast, work, eat some dinner and shower and go back to bed. There are so many things I want to persue but can't because of the state of the US economy. It doesn't make any sense. I was told anyone can make it to financial freedom in this country but everywhere I look I see people struggling with homelessness and poverty. Yet somehow the same names keep flashing over my news feed gushing about the “generosity” of billionaires and their “wisdom.” I feel like I'm forever going to be trapped in this cycle of get paid, pay bills, struggle until next payday. I want to live a real life but it doesn't seem like that's possible living in the USA.