As titles says… I live in northern Idaho, if you didn’t know idahos minimum wage is the federal low of 7.25, while most places pay more than that my towns wages are still extremely low when compared to cost of groceries and rent prices. For example, I pay $1,200 a month for rent, and our grocery bill is probably about $100/week, this is even with us not buying most meat at the store because my partner hunts and making “cheap” meals with rice beans etc. Add internet, gas, phone bills, car insurance, and that total comes to about $700/ month so a conservative estimate of total costs per month is ~2,500. Maybe this seems low, I don’t know but average wage is about 12/ hour, I’m a student so I don’t work full time but even so it just seems so not worth it to me to spend majority of my time some Place that pays me 12 dollars an hour, maybe I’m entitled but I’m trading my life to someone for 12 dollars an hour? It just doesn’t seem worth it to me, even state jobs pay less than 16/ hour here which is still low imo. Am I being stuck up? It just feels like a waste to me… I also have borderline personality disorder so I suffer a lot with burnout and have a hard time holding down jobs because of it, that’s part of the reason I’m a student because it at least gives me hope of crawling out of this monotonous pit I feel like I’m in. The last full time job I had I was so overwhelmed and burnt out towards the end from doing the job of multiple people while simultaneously getting paid next to nothing that my mental health got so bad, I would wake up crying from anxiety because I just felt like I was wasting my life. Will it always be like this? How do I move past this? I would love to have my own buisness with my partner and he had expressed interest in opening a feed store (he is a self employed farmer) but we don’t have the nest egg to start such a thing, how do I level with the fact that my entire life will be spent bettering someone else’s life while they pay me the least they can?