Back when minimum wage was $8 an hour, this is like….2010 I believe?
Rent was $1200 a month for a house, I was 17 years old and thought to myself
“If I want to succeed in life and live comfortably, I need to get a job that pays at least $20 an hour”
13 years later, here I am making $34 hourly/$70,000 salary, and I'm still struggling to pay a 2 bedroom apartment, car, and utilities.
This isn't what I worked so hard towards, what has the world come to?
Now I'm working to get a job that pays $130,000 salary just to reach the original goal I had back then, but how much longer until even THAT isn't enough?
I used to always rationalize it by thinking that I am simply lazy and I'm not doing or working hard enough and I need to work harder towards whats better.
But its all I've done, and I'm still in the same spot I am now just with a job that requires more from me and pays more while changing ALMOST nothing in my life.
I'm so tired, I'm just so tired…
The USA is falling