So I studied engineering and all ever dreamed was how I was going to graduate and I would be able to afford my dream cars (gtr or supra) and mid level house with enough space to have my car hobby expand over the years an maybe even kids for them to inherit everything . Yet here we are I graduated in the middle of of covid once started working all I could see is how my dream car and house kept going further and further away as covid slowly ended and everything rapidly increased in price. 2 years working as a engineer I said f it I’m buying the supra before it’s discontinued or it becomes unobtanium like houses or the gtr (I once saw in grasp seeing them go new for 70k while I was still doing my degree, now they go new for 150k thanks to inflation and dealer markup). My co workers constantly make fun saying I’m going to live in the car or that Im paying more than they’re mortgage for a car. I’m just dumbfounded at how the job I thought would make enough money to buy everything I wanted and live confortable was indeed true before the world went to $hit, my happy coworkers with houses families cars and boats as proof. The car was pays 800 ish a month and I laugh with my coworkers but I really would want to curse and cry because I know there is no decent house in a decent neighborhood around me that won’t be at the minimum half a million. At this point I just accepted the system I was broken and got so much worse after covid. I just wanted to at least enjoy one of the things that pushed me to pursue my degree. Since the house is unobtainable unless I would’ve said no to my dream car and everything else and only save money for the next 5 or more years hoping $hit doesn’t keep going up making all my saved money worthless. At this point I’ve given up on owning a house and much more given up at even thinking about having a kid.