First post on this sub, hope this is allowed and all.
I have been working 2 jobs with my shift being 7:45-3 at one and 3:15-6 at the other every weekday. I am a teacher assistant making 20$/hr (what I’ve come to discover is A LOT for my position). My other job was an after school daycare program making roughly 16$/hr.
I figured I’m young and in good health, so I decided to “grind” and make some extra cash despite the long hours. The extra cash began turning into a necessity however. Between maintaining mine and my girlfriend’s cara and furnishing our new apartment/catching up on bills on top of making rent. I was terrified of falling into a pit of death. Christmas time is always a stressful fucking month. Presents are no joke especially having a large family. All my debt was catching up to me and when February came around I was barely scraping by, had to get late fees attached to some credit cards. We aren’t bad with money, we budget, but we want to enjoy our lives too. Why can’t we order out every other week?
Then this last week my girlfriend’s car failed the emission’s test. six different error codes. That engine on her 16 year old car with 190,000 miles on it was pretty much in need of replacement. We’re talking more than like 1.5K at least, which we obviously can’t afford.
We couldn’t take it in to get fixed in the first place. That car sounded like a deathtrap, but she needed it to get to her new job and now it was basically undrivable. So what do we do?
Fuck it, I’m quitting my second job.
We can carpool, we’ll sell the car. Extra money to get a leg up on things and invest in my slightly newer car.
My first job was already getting tougher as my assignment changed to a more challenging/physical student. I don’t want to deal with working so damn long anymore, I want to go to the gym, i want to have time to hang before dinner. I wanna grab drinks with coworkers or friends. I don’t want to work 10 sometimes 11 fucking hours every day just to be exhausted and go to sleep at the end, or worry about not having enough relaxing/down time to myself. Fuck being underpaid.
I’m not as afraid anymore, as I said my girlfriend started a new job and things are looking much more steady financially now, but damn am I lucky I can say that. Just needed to vent that all out.
Enjoy your day guys!