So I got laid off in December. I'll be honest, I probably got laid off because of my performance, but divorce and shit, whatever.
I'm a software engineer. Not a big deal to get a new job.
So I did. First offer was two weeks after layoff and was $7k more than the job I just lost. Perfect, let's go.
A week into that, another job calls and offers me life changing money and free healthcare. Fuck yeah.
So I do the right thing. Do the right thing.
I tell company one I got company two job and rescind my acceptance before I even start working.
This puts me at no income between Dec 15th and Feb 15th, basically.
That put child support (divorce), mortgage, bills, etc behind.
I'm allowed overtime, so I'm able to catch up.
I'm in the suck right now. I'll be fine. But tomorrow, I'm going to be out of toilet paper and I don't get paid till Friday. I have -60 in my bank and a $250 loan at a cash advance place with like a 1000% interest rate that's just getting older by the month.
So that means that tomorrow, even though I make $123k a year and I'm averaging 10-13 hours of overtime, I'll have to take a shower if I shit, I guess.
By this time next year, this won't even be a memory for me, as I'm sure the salary suggests, but in this moment, I am a six figure income guy sitting here with no toilet paper like the minimum wage among us.
What really gets me is that if this were Japan or Sweden or Denmark, you and I both would be alright tomorrow.
But this is America, the greatest nation on earth.. where our guns are more important than our engineers, nurses, and teachers.
Update: thanks to great minds, I have remembered I have napkins in the car! We're making to Friday, bois.