I’ve been a lurker here at this sub for a long time and read a lot of stuff here that for one gives me “hope” (i guess) of knowing that I’m at least not alone. I feel like I’m just constantly living the same struggle over and over again that I cannot escape from. I used to think that it was “just me” or my own problem that I caused solely myself, but I’m starting to realize that maybe it’s not just me and maybe living an adult life in 2022 and being successful requires more dumb luck than people admit to. I don’t have a college education, I’ve always worked, always held a job, sometimes two. I have a family with 4 kids, and while we’ve never been homeless (thankfully), we probably would be without a lot of help from my parents on some of our bills. We don’t spend much on non-essential things that we need, we don’t go on any family vacations because we cant afford them, a lot of our weekends are spent just hanging around at the house because we cant afford to waste our money on thing we don’t “need”. But then on the other side of that, we live in the new trend of being able to put everything on a monthly subscription, and so we have fallen to those here and there as a way to do something “fun” because we have no other way to do it otherwise.
I hate feeling like this. I don’t want to be rich, really I dont, I just want to have ENOUGH. I work in sales because its the best opportunity that I have to make the kind of money that I absolutely need to make, and I don’t even really hate my job either. I just don’t understand why it seems like things are designed this way, designed for failure.
It truly to me feels like being successful in life and having income that’s respectable requires a lot of pure dumb luck.
Anyone else feel this?