The price of things and how little motivation I have to go to work has started to really get to me lately.
My boyfriend and I have been stressed about how much rent and groceries are, and there aren't any cheaper places that aren't the size of a single room. My boss has been promising a raise for many months now, but I doubt that will come to anything. My team is the lowest paid IT technicians in the entire university system, and we've tried getting a bigger raise than the paltry 3-5% annual increase we get without any luck.
My boyfriend wants to quit the big store sell-everything chain he's worked at since he got out of high school, but every other job he tries seems to be a flop (he's trying an electrician job next, but the contact won't contact him back very easily). I want more in my paycheck just so I don't have to worry so much about groceries, and don't like my boss all that much, and have applied to countless other jobs (even outside the university), but nothing has come of that. I want to stay in the university, as the benefits are good and I love the atmosphere of the place, but the squeeze of the price of things has me questioning that.
I just want to live without stressing about so many things that are out of my control. I want to have more time in my days to myself, my family, and my hobbies. I feel like I can't do this for a couple of decades and then die. Why is living so expensive to the point that no one can live to afford anything?
TLDR;; everything's expensive, I feel like I can't do anything about it, and I want to just cry most days