I'm pretty livid dude. I did the boomer meme of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, busted my ass through school while working full time at shitty jobs and got myself a nice technical degree that was supposed to afford me a comfortable life, but I am somehow worse off now due to the state of the economy. Rent alone is 54% of my income, and the rest of it is eaten up by other bills and food and gas. I've lost 8% of my monthly income for the month of May. I can't keep losing my income each month so I'm going to have to get a second job, probably just some shitty dishwasher job in the evenings/weekends. I got a degree so I didn't have to worry about bills and just be comfortable. I don't want to be rich by any means. And I am not the only one at my work that has a second job. The guy training me has been there for 20 years and he delivers fucking newspapers before work so he can survive. This shit is insane and unsustainable.